What do Chekhov have in common, by the way, today he is 166 years old, Rabelais, Bulgakov, Aksenov, Schiller, Dahl and Somerset Maugham?
They were all doctors. Anton Chekhov called everything extremely honestly:
“Medicine is my legal wife and literature is my mistress.”
And Maugham added almost relentlessly:
“A physician knows everything about a person – and the worst, and the best.”
This is probably why there are so many writers among doctors.
They just have something to say.
“During the years of study, the doctor remembers about 12 thousand terms,” says Daniyar Amangaliyev, deputy chief physician of the National Hospital, “this volume is equal to the study of three languages. Therefore, ideally, each doctor has a rich vocabulary and, of course, deep humanistic experience. Most of us write memoirs during our lives, and now they lead social networks. As for famous writers with medical education, literature pulled, they were mediocre doctors, most likely.
Among the books recommended by the doctors of our hospital are also their own:
📖 Henry Marsh “Do no harm”;
📖 Victor Frankl “Say yes to life!” “;
📖 Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Quit Smoking;
📖 and Chekhov.
After graduating from the medical faculty of Moscow State University, the sign “Doctor Chekhov” on its door hung for only three years.
But he always accepted patients, fought cholera in the Tula province. But he could not save himself.
Tuberculosis accompanied him from childhood and turned out to be stronger. He died at the age of 44 in Germany.
