Arthur Haley is a classic of modern American literature. His works are a kind of “pieces of life”. An airport, a hotel, a hospital, Wall Street - each time a closed space in which passions, ambitions and destinies intertwine. That is life. Such are Hayley’s novels.

Hospital. People are treated and saved here. This is essentially the only difference between a hospital and any other closed group - a store, an office, a hotel, a publishing house. Here they start office romances, quarrel, career - if necessary, then at the expense of colleagues - they weave intrigues. But doctors and nurses forget about personal affairs and ambitions and unite when the fate of a patient is at stake...

For the first time, the reader is offered the full text of the novel that brought Arthur Hailey international fame. The actual volume of this novel is almost twice as large as the abridged “magazine” version, published under the title “Final Diagnosis.”