I Am Always on the Side of the Weaker: Diaries, Conversations, Photo Biography

Elizaveta Glinka (1962–2016), known as Doctor Lisa, was a resuscitation physician and a specialist in palliative medicine. She founded the first hospice in Ukraine, in Kiev, supervised the work of hospices in cities across Russia, Serbia, and Armenia; created the International Charitable Public Organization "Fair Aid"; treated, fed, and supported the homeless; organized the evacuation of sick and injured children from Donbas. She died in a plane crash over the Black Sea on December 25, 2016, while accompanying a shipment of medicines and equipment for a hospital in Syria.
Doctor Lisa is the nickname under which Elizaveta Glinka began blogging in 2005 on "LiveJournal" to tell the stories of patients spending their last days in the hospice she founded in Kiev. She was convinced that absolutely every person, no matter who they were in life, what they became famous for, or what they had done, had the right to leave this world with dignity—without pain, without humiliation, not abandoned, and not forgotten. This belief she tried to convey to others. The book is based on the diaries of Elizaveta Glinka; the second part consists of selected interviews in which she speaks a lot about her work, her charges, and—quite a bit—about herself; the last part is her photo biography. The book also includes a preface by Evgeny Vodolazkin and a memoir essay by Gleb Glinka. The diaries are supplemented with unique drawings by Sergey Hollerbach.