Everyone has their own experience of communicating with people in white coats, worthy of a story and short story, or rather, drama and tragedy... But until now there have been no patient notes on the bookshelves. And then they appeared. Nikolai Fedorovich Plakhotny, a professional journalist who during his life went through all the steps of the media, from large circulation to central publications, took the risk of writing them. How bitterly recognizable is what the reader will find in his unusual book: after all, similar stories set out on these pages have happened or can happen to any of us, with the exception of the so-called VIPs of suffering humanity, awarded special care by the priests and servants of Hippocrates . And for us, mere mortals, God forbid we encounter domestic medicine, which, like the government, riddled with bribery and corruption, has been bursting at the seams since the collapse of the Soviet Union.