About the book: 2009 / The book of stories by the ancient Moscow intellectual Vladimir Naidin is an attempt to revive the classic genre of "doctor's notes" using modern material. This is what Bulgakov and Chekhov wrote. How many legendary people has he treated? Bakhtin and Shklovsky, Aksenov and Kostolevsky. Military men, politicians, athletes, artists. A real human comedy of illnesses and recoveries unfolded before Naidin’s eyes. Some of his patients jump with a parachute again after a serious spinal cord injury, others became tennis players after encephalitis. Someone, having gone through an illness, changed their family, faith and country of residence. Naidin was passed from hand to hand as a magical panacea. The spark of this magic flared up in this book.