In the doctor's office. Behind-the-scenes dramas of the therapy department

60 hours a week. 240 patients. 10 minutes for diagnosis. This is — the life of a therapist. Beyond the doors of his office, the most unimaginable, amusing, and not-so-amusing situations unfold. An unsuspecting woman, unaware of her pregnancy, is about to give birth in the operating room; a man drops his trousers and offers to provide a urine sample right there; a family, just facing a heavy loss, needs words of support, while the Covid-19 pandemic turns the entire routine of doctors upside down in an instant. Spend a few days with Dr. Amir Khan and his patients, whom he treats with the same care and concern as his own family members. And find your own answer to the question: what is it like to be a therapist?

- How to establish contact even with the most difficult patient?
- What to say to a woman who has just lost her child?
- How does a doctor cope with an unhealthy workload?
- How to behave if a patient is armed?
- How has the coronavirus turned the work of doctors upside down?

«What do you associate with the profession of a district therapist? With a queue? With a cold? What if you were told that this specialty is much deeper and broader? With the book „Wait, the doctor will see you now“, you can experience many of those brief appointments with a therapist that everyone has had to visit. If you think that the work of doctors in this specialty differs in different countries, you will be surprised during your reading. Although there are, of course, differences. Many books have been written about the heroism of surgeons, but there are many more heroes in medicine». — ANNA LOSEVA, anesthesiologist-resuscitator of the anesthesiology-resuscitation department of the A.N. Bakulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, author of a medical blog about first aid @med_otvet