Author - a doctor with 20 years of experience (in the past - an intensive care physician), lawyer, candidate of medical sciences . The book on legal problems of medical activity in the modern Russian state was created on the basis of materials of lectures and seminars on legal issues of medical activity, which the author wrote during 2003 - 2005. It was for the doctors................................... heads of health management bodies, chief doctors and their deputies, experts of insurance medical companies (Higher Economic School of the University of Economics and Finance St. Petersburg) . Its pages offer legal solutions to the most pressing problems of medical practice. Without pretending to be a textbook on medical law, the book aims to help doctors and their leaders to see and understand the difficult reform processes that are taking place today in the state and in its health care system.