Ward 6

by Anton Chekhov

This short story was recently released as a faux documentary.  See Medflix. 

Here is Ward 6 online.

V.S. Pritchett on Ward 6 (A review)  "The story, Ward 6, is one of the most intense, powerful and claustrophobic he ever wrote. He was eight months writing it and it runs to fifty pages. When Lenin read it in his youth he said it had made him a revolutionary: for ourselves it may seem to foretell Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward."  .