This book is the first not-boring popular science introduction to modern medicine—our ailments, modern medicines, and the human body.
Nikita Zhukov, a young neurologist from Saint Petersburg, is the author of the ultra-popular project “Encyclopatia” (from “Encyclopedia pathologicae”—a pathological encyclopedia), which is visited by more than 100,000 people every day. His “Modicine” (from “fashionable medicine”) is a critique of traditional misconceptions—contrary to science. Serious men—who don’t consider Nikita an authority—discuss his scientific-satirical articles on medical forums, criticize them, praise them, and argue until their pulse is gone.
Do you worry about headaches from Instagram?
Or migraine after a day at work on VKontakte?
Maybe cramps at the sight of crooked design?
Do you wonder why expensive placebo works better than cheap?
Or—do the “fuflomycins” really help you?
Together, we’ll surely figure out what to do about it.
“A minute ago you knew what magi-frenzy/“magi-frenzia” was?” — encyclopatia.ru
“This book is a different, not very familiar form for us and completely unfamiliar to medicine—continuing the traditions of the Peter Principle, Murphy’s Law, and Parkinson’s Law in the internet era,” says Nikita Alexandrovich Zorin, M.D., psychiatrist, Ph.D., associate professor, member of the presidium of the Moscow branch of the Society of Specialists in Evidence-Based Medicine (OSDM).