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This article deals with the specific use of tense forms in the modern medical text and focuses on their role in representing the doctor – patient relationships. The author comes to the conclusion that tense forms can be used in an uncharacteristic meaning even in the medical text, separating the doctor’s voice from that of the patient.

The article focuses on the specific features of verbalization of the linguo-cultural concept ‘doctor’ in the Russian artistic medical discourse. The article aims to define the linguo-cultural concept of the artistic medical discourse, to explain the specific nature of linguistic means which objectify it in the Russian linguo-culture, to find out nuclear, near-nuclear and peripheral components of this concept, to define forms of its linguistic actualization.