[Universalistic medicine in relation to diabetes as a chronic disease at the turn of 20th and 21st centuries].

This paper is devoted to the ideas and purposes of universalistic medicine as a knowledge of restoring, preserving and improving health state and making possible to evaluate individual human being as an integrated subject of creative evolution. The illustration of the problem are own experiences with educational programmes for patients with diabetic nephropathy at end-stage renal failure, prepared for renal replacement therapy with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.