One Medicine. How Understanding Animal Life Helps Treat Human Diseases

In his new book, intensive care physician and researcher Matt Morgan discusses how understanding animal life helps treat human diseases.
The technologies around us allow us to fight cancer, perform incredible surgeries, treat sepsis, restart hearts, transplant organs, and save lives. However, all of this was discovered millions of years ago. Not by doctors, nurses, and researchers, but by animals that fly in the skies above our hospitals, dig the ground beneath them, and swim in the ocean.

«Your dog gives you its paw, a cat is trained to use a litter box, a trained tiger jumps through rings, and an elephant hugs tourists with its trunk for photos. People undoubtedly taught them this. It seems that teaching in the other direction is simply impossible. But the book ""One Medicine"" discusses the hidden process, unnoticed by most, where humans learn from animals, peeking and borrowing their survival methods in harsh conditions from diverse corners of our planet. After reading this book, one realizes that our animal world is an inexhaustible source of hints for doctors and medical researchers». — Anna Loseva, anesthesiologist-resuscitator, author of the medical blog @med_otvet