About surgery and not only

In the book of the famous surgeon-oncologist, Professor Yu.I. Patytko tells about his life in medicine and surgery, which he has been serving for more than half a century. The thoughts of the outstanding doctor about the profession, teachers and students, about patients and colleagues are addressed not only to those associated with medicine, but to all connoisseurs of memoirs as unique personal evidence of time and fate. For a wide range of readers. "How does a person choose a doctor’s profession? Who and how becomes a surgeon? There are many problems and difficulties in this field, disappointment and error are not uncommon. The doctor walks next to death, someone is closer, someone further ... Each failure hurts the soul, takes a particle of life and kilometers of nerves. But if you put all these difficulties on one bowl of Libra, and on the other - a huge feeling of satisfaction from victory over the disease, won by your hands, your head, your skill, and add the grateful joy of the cured patients, these will be incomparable values. And if I again had to choose my life path, knowing all its thorny in advance, I would again choose a difficult, complex, rich in spikes, but such an attractive fate of the surgeon! ”