The novel by Anatoly Argunov tells about the life of a scientist and doctor. Lying in a hospital bed, he remembers the past - studies, love, friendship, career, and rethinks some actions and events. The book has many similarities with the fate of the author. The life of students can be traced from the late 60s of the 20th century and continues in the present generations - students of the 21st century. Centuries of nanotechnology, new discoveries in all spheres of human existence. But a student is always a student. The experiences and actions of the characters reflected in this book will be of interest to the current generation of students and readers. “Working as a doctor in a rural area is not a walk along Nevsky Prospect. Anything is a challenge. Either my grandmother’s blood pressure rose, or the tractor driver’s gastritis worsened during the plowing period, or someone drank something like that - vomiting with diarrhea. And everything is urgent, without weekends or holidays. It’s good that the hospital also had a surgeon and a pediatrician, otherwise it would have been a total disaster. And, gradually getting involved in this series of everyday and not very pleasant affairs, Zhenya, by that time Evgeny Efimovich, got used to treating everything philosophically, they say, God protects those who are protected, and no medicine will help those who are destined to die...”