Today, the genre of medical prose has again become relevant. The same one whose foundations were laid by Bulgakov and Veresaev. It turned out that the problems facing their heroes remained virtually unchanged - society has changed, medicine has moved far forward, but human nature has remained the same. Namely, doctors work with the human essence. The medical community is quite closed. This is the nature of the profession, this is how it happened historically. It is this closeness that gives rise to myths and stereotypes - about the cynicism of doctors, about the fact that doctors understand a person as a complex, unreliable machine... This collection is the view of doctors on the profession, on patients, on themselves - so that the reader can decide for himself how justified the myths are about those who wear white coats and drive cars with a red cross...