Nick Neim's Stories

Tag: medicine

  • SIGH OF ETHER

    A fiction short story Dr. Simon Ether left the room and no rushing walked to the nurses’ station. Now at the counter he will write down his observations and recommendations in the patient’s medical history. Perhaps not all observations. Moreover, not all thoughts about what is happening… This was the second time in a week…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 77 – The last year at home: initial setup

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY SEVEN – THE LAST YEAR AT HOME: INITIAL SETUP The very first adventure awaited us on the city station platform. Despite the fact that the hospitable beer advertisement was still shining on the station square, something elusive in the spirit of the city had changed. The police, noticing that we…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 75 – The Moscow experiment: In the Central Hospital

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY FIVE – THE MOSCOW EXPERIMENT: IN THE CENTRAL HOSPITAL The first year in SRISI gone chaotic. Rotations that is, clinics, changed several times, I had to adapt to new places and teams. Sometimes it was easy, you fell in with the flow and worked with full dedication for…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 74 – The Moscow experiment: Work and life (Part 2)

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY FOUR – THE MOSCOW EXPERIMENT: WORK AND LIFE (PART 2) And now, a few stories about life, although don’t be surprised, perhaps some of them will again be about work. These stories also can be divided into two types – about local and metropolitan life. We actually lived…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 73 – The Moscow experiment: Interesting situations. Work and life (Part 1)

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE – THE MOSCOW EXPERIMENT: INTERESTING SITUATIONS. WORK AND LIFE (PART 1) 1. Interesting situations Although Tbilisi and Moscow were cities of the same country (USSR), the customs, views and behavior of the people in them were so different that it seemed to me that sometimes in Moscow…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 69 – Years in the Medical School (Part 4)

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIXTY NINE – YEARS IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL (PART 4) Sometime in the middle of my medical school, my dad emigrated. My wife and I saw him and Rimma off at the city train station. I didn’t go to Moscow for the farewell; we had not yet become close…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 68 – Years in the Medical School (Part 3) – History of Chichiko

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIXTY EIGHT – YEARS IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL (PART 3) – HISTORY OF CHICHICO I’m making a small digression. This true story, which has no direct relevance to me, happened when I was in my fifth year of medical school. But the people described in it are well familiar…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 67 – Years in the Medical School (Part 2)

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIXTY SEVEN – YEARS IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL (PART 2) Let me continue a potpourri of stories about life in medical school. While studying ENT (otorhinolaryngology), a funnier episode occurred. It seemed to me that I had some kind of hearing problem, because I often asked again when my…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 63 – The daughter

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SIXTY THREE – THE DAUGHTER When the time came for the birth, Lilya went to the capital to her parents for the best medicine, and I planned to come before the birth and achieve first-class care in the maternity hospital in the usual Georgian way of gifts and…