Are you definitely a doctor? Stories about complex patients, modern medicine and the power of humor

The most striking stories from the practice of Liam Farrell - a family doctor from the Irish hinterland. Extremely honest, without embellishment and with thin humor.

About the fact that the doctor is also a person. About professional everyday life and patients, about modern medicine and the ubiquitous bureaucracy, about pain and hope, about the power of knowledge and the power of sympathy, about how impassive science gives way to intuition and inspiration.

This is a collection of stories in which Liam Farrell, in the best traditions of Bulgakov and Chekhov, describes the doctor of the doctor.

The book will not leave indifferent fans of medical series and everyone who wants to learn more about the practice of representatives of one of the most humane and complex professions.

For whom this book
For those who want to learn more about the life of doctors.

For lovers of medical biographies and stories.

For fans of the series "Clinic", "Doctor House" and "Ambulance".

From the author
We, doctors, live on the verge of uncertainty, we dance on the tip of the knife. Science leads us only to a certain limit, and then gray spots appear on the map, and the navigator stops, giving way to intuition, imagination and command of feelings. Fortunately, this is a powerful weapon, from the "crime and punishment" Dostoevsky, I learned about the human mind more than from any psychiatry textbook.

Each of us suffered at least once in our lives, so we empathize, looking at the self -portrait of Van Gogh: the artist and the viewer have a common experience, as well as the doctor and the patient find mutual understanding. Unlike the cold and hardly obtained truths of scientific medicine, all this is vague and vaguely: something needs to be studied on bitter experience, something cannot be taught, something requires sympathy and empathy