During his medical practice, Ruslan Melyin, a maxillofacial surgeon, has seen many disfigured people. As an artist, he would make pencil sketches of their portraits, and from that later grew an entire series of expressive drawings—and this book. “Sick Reality” is a story by a doctor and a contemporary artist about his patients who became victims of someone else’s cruelty. Ruslan Melyin shares the most terrible, unusual, and sometimes shocking cases he encountered over the years of his work. His characters are most often women who suffered from domestic violence, but among them there are also men, children, the homeless, and prisoners. All the stories described in the book are real, and behind each one lies not only a serious physical injury, but also a deep psychological wound. Attention! The author’s opinion may not coincide with the position of the publisher.