“When will the time finally come when you won’t have to cry about the fact that the day is not made of 40 hours? ... I work like the last day laborer, ”Sergey Petrovich Botkin lamented. Today we can say with confidence that his work was not in vain.Being a participant in the Crimean War, he was the first to propose a system for organizing assistance to wounded soldiers and became the founder of Russian military surgery. It was he who described Botkin's disease and created the Russian epidemiological society to combat infectious diseases and epidemics of plague, cholera and smallpox. Sergei Petrovich opened the first women's treatment courses in Russia, was the first to use a thermometer to determine a person's temperature, and developed a hygiene system for doctors.In this book, Sergei Petrovich talks about the most difficult and interesting cases that he happened to encounter during time of medical practice, and also tells how to talk with the patient, what you should pay attention to first of all, how to build a patient treatment system.