Typology as a result of participant observation in medicine

The article is a review-reflection on A. Reshetun’s Patientology: Those Who Wait, Lie, and ‘Just Want to Ask’ (Moscow: Alpina Publisher, 2025, 197 p.). In the sociological perspective, the book is not only, as stated in the annotation, “an ironic guide to the complex world of doctor-patient relationships” and “an attempt to look at familiar situations in clinics and hospitals from an unexpected angle”, but also the results of the expert participant observation, which may be useful for conducting theoretical and empirical sociological studies in the field of medicine and healthcare.