Sometimes you just want to drink coffee in silence. Without phone calls, without emergency situations, without phrases like "Doctor, my temperature is 37, is it urgent?"

And then my mother calls and asks:
- Valeria, do you even eat?
- No, Mom, I live on adrenaline and sarcasm.

Sometimes patients tell me: "Doctor, you are so beautiful! Why aren't you a model?"
I answer: "Because models don't hear the phrase: "Please take the catheter out of me.""

A doctor's job is not about a white coat and TV...

There is one thing that tests my mental stability every day - the elevator call button. No, not at work, but at home, in an ordinary entrance. Why, tell me, is there always a person who presses it... and then three more times in a row, as if the elevator will hear better?

Today I was standing with a neighbor. He pressed the button, it lit up. After 3 seconds - again. After 2 - again. I asked:
- Do you accompany it with a spell or just check the pressure?

He looked at me very seriously and said...

Sometimes, it doesn't take a castle or a crown to make a woman feel like a queen. It's in the little things — the way someone listens to her with real interest, how they respect her space, her choices, and her dreams. A single compliment whispered at the right moment can be more powerful than diamonds.

A woman feels like a queen when she’s cherished not just for how she looks, but for who she is — her fire, her softness, her strength, her vulnerability. When she is seen, truly seen, and not jus...

I touch hundreds of bodies every day. Cold skin, damp palms, tense shoulders. People are afraid of pain, but even more afraid of touch, which reveals too much.

It only takes me a couple of seconds to understand that you haven’t slept, you’re nervous, you’re lying. Your pulse gives away more than words. Your pupils constrict with fear. And your breathing is interrupted not only by pain… but also by desire.

There are formulas in medicine, there are protocols. But between them there is space. And...