As a happy, care-free girl and then young woman in the U.S.S.R., the author always had a special reverence for things foreign. What could have been better than America, she had thought, where one could boldly walk through life without fear of anything or anyone? With Perestroika and ultimately the fall of the Iron Curtain, the opportunity presented itself and she bolted for the West. But over time she comes to see America both as a place of astonishing adventure and of overwhelming challenge. The author finds herself a veritable Alice in Wonderland in her personal and epic struggle with that most powerful of American machines and institutions, American Medicine. In the end, the author shows that, no matter where you may be, laughter makes a difference, and, if you are able to laugh at yourself, it will save you. The book is intended for general audiences and will build immunity against various diagnoses, medical tests and other heresies.