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Ercan Kesal looks at the different faces of medicine through his own story, which starts with his admiration for doctors in his childhood and extends to his medical student life.

“A doctor who knows that the stain on the wall of his patient's house is responsible for the stain on his patient's lung is a good doctor. Medicine is the art of collecting stories... In fact, medicine means listening to the patient's story. Saying 'Take these medicines and swallow them' is nothing, nothing comes of it anyway. "As soon as I saw this kind of medicine, I gave up." Ercan Kesal looks at the different faces of medicine through his own story, which starts with his admiration for doctors in his childhood and extends to his medical student life: compulsory service, rural medicine, private practice, specialization, "hospitalism"... He thinks about the labor process, difficulties, pleasures and enigmas of medicine. Of course, it is also about the social and political responsibilities of physicians... Medical Arts, in addition to the skills required by medicine, also focuses on its intersections with cinema, art and literature... Based on Ercan Kesal's own experience... And “A little more instead of more information.” with advice such as “wisdom,” “There is no disease, only the sick.”