"Medicine is the real subject of this book." In this autobiographical chronicle, the author never loses eye his grandfather who was a doctor and humanist. And here we are prancing behind the young student, the internal hospital, the psychiatrist, the humanitarian activist, diplomat and finally the writer. Vivid writing, sometimes unfriendly about (bitter?) The field covered is extensive, hyper interesting. It is not Much to introduce the reader, brave philistine, the workings of companies and organizations which he perceives only the scum? "My project, embracing the medical career was not only to make use of the stethoscope 'The commitment will, humanism in action, the literary roots, these ideals were for me the principle of mysterious activity that I see since childhood and called medicine. All this I have come through the detour of a career that, while walking on margins, eventually led me how far I wanted to go. "