“It doesn't matter what you do. It is important that a person puts all the passion of his soul into this business. N.M. Amosov. December 6, 2020 marks the 107th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Mikhailovich Amosov. An extreme surgeon is a virtuoso with original thinking. The Great Patriotic War became its main university. It was there that he developed a new technique for lung surgery. They had not yet dreamed of cardiac surgery, but he began to do it. According to his drawings, a heart-lung machine was constructed, which made it possible to perform the most complex heart operations. Talent, multiplied by the colossal experience of a military surgeon, allowed him to adapt during complex operations to a different course of the disease. “Surgery is needlework, an art. Surgeons are technical masters. In order to be a high-class surgeon, you need to operate constantly, daily, and not once a week or once a month. I did operations only when absolutely necessary and all operations were justified. And everything is complicated. More simple operations were done by my students.” Amosov said. Kind, attentive attitude to the patient, common sense, professionalism and morality are his personal qualities. One thought - to save - this is his whole philosophy. The book tells about my personal story with a heart operation at the Amosov clinic in 1972.