Winter Storm by Mikhail Bulgakov. Short summary

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A doctor rushes to a call at night. The blizzard has caused the wagon to get lost. Upon reaching the patient, the man promises that this is the last time he will go to the sick at night. But he doesn’t believe it himself.

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The narrator is a young doctor.

He once saved a girl who had been hurt by a chaff. After that, the young specialist gained fame and received 100 people a day, and at night he also delivered heavy babies. Despite the fatigue and nightmares that haunted the doctor, he lived only the raisons of his patients.

Every day the doctor engaged in a battle that began at dawn and ended with the flicker of a lamp. One day he saw 111 patients. Then a blizzard began and only a few patients came in.

Just when the doctor allowed himself to relax and bathe properly, they came for him. Help was needed for a young girl who had fallen out of her sleigh.

On the way, the hero fell asleep. He woke up from freezing. The wagon got lost and the horses refused to go. Having barely made it to his destination and done his job, the doctor promised that he would not go anywhere else. But the blizzard outside the window sang to the contrary.