And on all the television screens, websites and newspaper pages – physicians.
a concert For them in a Big. Free Parking. Unusually emotional speech of officials.
Really when our lives, a miracle happens and the medicine will no longer be attributed to the service sector? Do doctors get a decent salary? Would we start to say two words – “doctors ‘ case” – with no chill in the back?
Could they ever be rewarded?
Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky once said that the Great Patriotic war was won wounded. Because more than 70 percent of the wounded Soviet doctors were able to return to duty. My step-mother’s older sister Shulamith in 1941 he graduated from the fourth year of the Gorky medical Institute. With his senior year was drafted aimed at the floating hospital, who went for the wounded in Stalingrad. I was disappointed when after the second flight was transferred to routes in Kalinin (Tver). The first place, only mastered.
the Ship that came back from Stalingrad, the Germans bombed.
And nursing in a chair I ran to meet on the pier. I was allowed to Board a steamer, where there were beds in two tiers. I read a bandaged soldiers poems and sometimes one of them asked me to write a letter. It wasn’t easy – I just graduated from the first class. But I tried. Were treated to stewed fruit, the taste is remembered for a lifetime.
When the navigation is over, the nurse sent in the usual front-line hospital. After the war, she, like other survivors, was presented with the diploma of the doctor. Without douchevina. And appointed 26-year-old, to manage rayzdravotdela. Because by the time she was in the profession for all. And, most importantly, to love their patients.
Moscow’s famous house on the embankment lived a famous pediatrician Mrs. Julia Dombrovskaya. I’ll never forget the evening spent in her apartment, and the phrase:
“the doctor touching the child, should be warm hands.”
In the middle of the last century in the Soviet Union rattled “the doctors”. World-famous doctors were called “murderers in white coats”. Some got arrested. My mother, a graduate of the medical faculty of Kazan University, worked 40 years as a dentist in the clinic. The revelry of the “case of doctors” my mom found glass shards in cement, prepared by the nurse for a dental filling. A nurse who worked for many years with my mother burst into tears: “I was made”.
years after after “national condemnation of the killers in white coats” who poisoned the great Maxim Gorky and his son Maxim, I had a chance to talk to the widow of the writer Yekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova. Asked whether she believes in these messages. How she looked! As he said: “Such nonsense!”
But what of the fate of this stuff is soiled and pierced through.
Hero of Socialist Labor aka��emik Vladimir Kharitonovich Vasilenko told me that upon arrival to Moscow from a foreign business trip was arrested as he came down the ramp. The largest therapist largest gastroenterologist, author of the worldwide known works…
“Killers” was released from prison. He returned to work. High-profile apology is not forthcoming.
But why do most of the grief goes to those who are trying to save us?
the founder of the world transplant Vladimir Petrovich Demikhovo (the famous surgeon Christian Barnard, who spent the world’s first heart transplant man, proudly considered himself a disciple of Demikhova) life was blamed that he is a biologist by training. And its unique operation to transplant the organs of animals is not just anathema, Demikhova publicly left to rot. He and his associates huddled in some corners. In one of them I first saw a dog, which Vladimir Petrovich head transplant.
When in the office, where I worked, saw a picture of a dog with two heads, from the publication refused.
many years later I visited the Vladimir Petrovich on the outskirts of Moscow in the Khrushchev five-storey building where he lived. Wife Lily, treating with tea and cake, mentioned that the cake brought Andrei Akopyan, a young doctor who tried though as-that to brighten up the life of a genius. We went from him at the untidy stairs, on the steps eating sunflower seeds teenagers. Asked if they know who lives upstairs? “Some two old men…”
After I posted this note, I was called by the academician Renat Akchurin. It was then know, probably all. In November 1996, Renat Akchurin was operated on the heart of the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin. Renat asked me to take him to Demikhovo. “At least look at this man.”
Come with me to the office. Myself driving, not used to. There was a time when the future star had to earn money as a taxi driver. And off we went. Renat Akchurin knelt before Demikhova and showed him a relic – a thin, read a book with a lot of underscores. The author of a book about organ transplantation – Vladimir Demikhov. Renat said this book is praised before foreign colleagues. And that those in the answer say: “Oh! You have the book Demikhova!”
When Vladimir died, the funeral took Andrey Hakobyan. I telephoned various medical and other authorities: asked to come to the farewell. Came Valery Ivanovich Shumakov, Leo Antonovich Bokeria, Gennady G. Onishchenko.
When the Director of the Institute of ambulance Sklifosovsky was an outstanding surgeon, academician Anzor Khubutia Shalvovich, it is achieved that on one of the buildings appeared a memorial plaque in honor of Vladimir Demikhova.
Became a Director of the Institute xhirurgii Vishnevsky, academician of the Amiran Revishvili Shotaevich established in the territory of the bust Demikhovo.
the Chief transplant surgeon of Russia, Director of the Institute of transplantation and transplantation of organs academician Sergey Gaultier has created in this center hall Demikhova, where the monument to Vladimir Petrovich.
And the Institute bears the name of Valery Shumakov, who had their own “doctors”.
In April 2003, operating 20-th Moscow hospital raided by the police. The next morning the headlines shouted that “killer doctors back in business”. At some crowded meeting I saw in the lobby dejectedly sitting in the side Shumakova. Approached him.
– Valery Ivanovich! Well, do not Bang his fist on the table, this to end?
the Answer of the academician, the largest transplant in the world, “Knocked. Can’t hear.”
After two years of litigation doctors 20th acquitted. Quiet. Unnoticed. Nobody cared how many unsaved lives cost another nonsense…
not the first and Not the last in the history of our distressful medicine.
the Evening shift at the office. A colleague in tears: “Daughter dies after surgery. Said, “can only Save Doletsky”.
We have long been familiar with him. Since then, when the outstanding children’s surgeon and his two assistants were accused of experimenting on children. And if without demagogy – a new method for the diagnosis and treatment of children. Innovators threatened real criminal case. Remember the crowded meeting-the judgment seat. And then the method proposed Dolecki, included in the practice….
Colleague in a panic. Mobile phones at that time was not. Home phone said: “Stanislav Yakovlevich swims in the pool “Moscow”. Had one on the site of the temple of Christ the Savior. Winter, cold, Blizzard. Rushing to the pool. We pop up a megaphone, and I’m on the speakerphone the call of Doneckogo: “Need help.”
It appears instantly. With the wet heats the water flows. “We must save the child!” Doletsky doesn’t ask questions. Disappears and reappears dressed: “Go”. It operated on. Saved. When this was told, in reply, without emotion: “this is Doletsky”…
Chief pediatric surgeon Russia, writer, academician, member of the British Association of pediatric surgeons.
Other classics at various times talked about the fact that Russia like the dead. And that living here must be a long time if you want to achieve something. A few years ago, Russia decided to abolish… Pediatrics. It has been announced in the pediatric forum. Let therapists treat children! And if not academician Alexander Baranov and children’s doctor of the world Leonid Roshal.
In the center of children’s health Grand opening of the new building. The representative of the Ministry of health offers a toast for Alexander Alexandrovich Baranov – he then headed the center. To his credit, it turns out that at that��, quoting a representative of that “sheep managed to break through, to overcome all the branches of government, managed to convince of the need for such a corps.”
But…
Why is it necessary to break, to overcome this endless fight?
Why academician Alexander G. Rumyantsev, only the third attempt managed to break through the creation of a rehabilitation center for children suffering from severe oncological diseases? I was in new York at the meeting of the United Nations, dedicated to Chernobyl tragedy. In elimination of its consequences participated Rumyantsev. At the meeting Alexander Lukashenko has acted with the report. As it listened! As he answered the questions!
At the peak of the pandemic coronavirus his car – Rumyantsev was driving and I was driving home from Center named after Dima Rogachev – was detained by the cops. Sensation spread through the country: caught academician!
In the hour of trial on all screens – the doctors. For all it became obvious: in the world war without shots they are our main hope. Denis Protsenko – Kommunarka. Sergey Petrikov – Sklif. Alexei Shabunin – Botkin. Andrei Shkoda – 67 hospital, Mr Vecherko hospital named after Filatov, Olga Pupysheva – hospital named after Yudina.
the Doctor Sergey Vorontsov gave me a collection of his poems, a stanza of which finish.
Life is to change this a little,
Back to the ghostly years,
For a flutter of the eyelashes and your eyes strict
my Kingdom again I will give.
“Life is change this a little” is about doctors. Collection released in 2017. The doctors and the prophets.
