This is a fascinating book and (as said in Professor Mamamtavrischvili's Foreword) it provides the answers to many troubling questions of vital importance asked by young doctors and students in Russia. It certainly needs reading by anyone studying the influences which mould their professional standards. Dr. Iago Galdston suggests in his introduction that Dr. Pondoev has three personalities?a br...

insurance in this country. True, we have a great quantity of voluntary health insurance, but quantity and effectiveness are not synonymous. By dichotomizing the challenge and allowing only the alternative of sound medical practice, which preserves the physician-patient relationship, or socialism, Dr. Page permits himself to conclude that, " . . . the only practicable scheme that will relieve pe...