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    <body><![CDATA[What a young doctors feels like at the beginning of his career]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a collection of autobiographical stories from M. A. Bulgakov (best known for &quot;Master and Margarita&quot; and &quot;Heart of a Dog&quot;) written about his tenure in a country clinic, well written and poignant. <br/>especially memorable are his reflections on a syphilis epidemic and a very reve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13816077">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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