A collection of stories about medical deontology, about the life and work of a doctor, about his place among people. Stories - memoirs are based on real events in the life of the author. Basically, they relate to the period of his professional medical youth, to the years of service in the military. For a long time, they were used by him as oral pedagogical material in teaching therapy and military field therapy and were stored in the form of short notes that did not allow them to be forgotten. In our time, medical moral culture, like culture in general, is falling, largely replaced by monetary relations. Seeing this is unbearably hard. Therefore, among the stories there is no heading - doctor-businessman, doctor-businessman, although such examples are now a dime a dozen. Western influences destroy the human status of the doctor, turning him into an element of the market structure. The collection of stories is not only a statement of past experience, but also a protest against its modern deformation. For therapists, general practitioners, especially military doctors