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Being is a dialectical unity of life and death. The force field in which they unfold is indivisible. Hippocrates (460-375 BC), the "father of medicine", had already realized that "nature is existence and non-existence". Engels also accepted the basic position of biology as the continuous growth of death throughout life. When it is the natural end of personal existence, this is undoubtedly not a disease phenomenon. Indeed, diseases are also subject to natural laws, but they disrupt the free flow of life more or less, for a short or a long time. In health, it unfolds in the rhythmic sequence of age transitions from birth to death. Since diseases put to sleep or even make it impossible for the full expression of the individual, man has been fighting against them for a long time. Moreover, both plants and animals resist disease according to their biological capabilities. "Natural healing" is noted in all stages of evolution, starting from the single-celled organism and ending with man. But he - unlike all other living beings - also creates a healing art, or more precisely, medicine as a science. His consciousness enables him not only to establish that he has an illness, but also to experience it as his own suffering, not only to die, but also to have his own attitude towards death. If the continuation of the existence of the personality and beyond its limits is an exciting problem of primitive cosmogony, of ancient and modern philosophy, if it is the lifeblood of religious longings and creative achievements, an inspiring impulse for self-sacrifice in social conflicts, then medicine aims to preserve life only beyond death. But the vocation of the doctor is not limited to prolonging life to its natural end through the physiological extinction of brain activity. The doctor removes or at least alleviates suffering and pain, fear and grief, anger and despair. He prevents (or tries to do so) the transition of acute illness into long-term suffering and infirmity. He helps the restoration of the organism and the personality in the urge and to regain the freedom of health. But the task of his tasks is - to protect the person from illness.