Sklifosovsky: Emergency Care

In people’s slang, Skliф is what they call the N.V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine. Here they bring the most difficult patients and deal with the most desperate situations. Here the question of life and death is decided, and patients are pulled back from the other side. In this hospital—like in a mirror—reflected all of Russian medicine…

Read the new novel by the author of the bestseller “The Clinic of S…..” — the unvarnished truth about doctors and patients, about modest heroes for whom the Hippocratic Oath is above all, and about money-grubbing scalpers in white coats—“raising patients for cash,” about fatal medical errors and diagnostic geniuses, compared to whom Doctor House seems like a village quack… This book will open every door for you—even the ones with the sign “No entry for outsiders” and “For medical personnel only”—and will take you behind the scenes of the Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, into the “holy of holies” of the legendary Sklif!