[Cholera in Kazan. Organization and implementation of cholera control interventions].

Data on emergent epidemiological analysis of the cholera outbreak in Kazan are presented. A version of the cholera focus emergence was confirmed, namely water route of transmission as a result of bathing in a water reservoir where sewage waters had penetrated. The outbreak had local and acute character.

[The ethical-legal problems of physician and patient relationships].

The paternalistic pattern of doctor-patient relationships will be evidently retained in Russian medicine in the nearest future. Therefore the society should be steadily step-by-step prepared to perception of the material values most fully ensuring the patient's rights in the course of therapeutic cooperation.