Do you want to live, Vikenty?

What the students of the medical school, Sanya Gribov and his friends, have to face in practice at the hospital! It seems that all human life, from birth to death, in all its dramatic and tragicomic manifestations, passes before their eyes… What will their future profession become for the heroes of the book — a calling and service or just a means of existence, a cold and impersonal provision of "medical services"? This choice is already being made by the young doctors as they grasp the basics of the profession. For middle and high school age.