“The Sixth Cot and Other Stories from the Life of Parovozov” is the long-awaited collection of short stories by Alexey Motorov, the author of “The Young Years of Parovozov’s Medic” and “The Crime of Doctor Parovozov.” The collection brings together 23 stories from the life of Parovozov the orderly. The heroes of these varied stories—different as life itself—are also very different people, and the author treats each of them with unwavering warmth and respect. Here you’ll find stories from Parovozov’s childhood that help you understand the beloved hero much better, and memories of patients pulled back from the edge of life, and seemingly endless shifts in the intensive care unit of the Seventh Hospital, and the first meeting with Soviet medicine, and vacations on inhospitable steppes, and walks through Moscow with his future wife, and a heroic tale about a sunken baby stroller. As always—with humor, understanding, and love for people and for his profession.