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A sick heart is healed by a loving heart. A story from lifeThe outstanding cardiac surgeon Academician Vladimir Almazov had a glass with a heart in it in his office at the First Medical Institute clinic. Every student knew the history of this heart. At the very beginning of the 50s, when Almazov was still a 4th year student at the First Medical Institute, a girl with subacute septic endocarditis was admitted to the institute’s clinic. This terrible disease still causes a high mortality rate, but back then… She was considered hopeless. The girl’s temperature was under forty, her heart was failing. She was examined by leading professors and, as usual, a number of interns without any results. Among the interns, there was one who was talented and attentive… “No, he did not propose a revolutionary method of treating endocarditis, he just fell in love – the girl was very pretty. He began to visit the ward every day, brought flowers. The dying girl fell in love with him too. And she began to recover slowly. They got married, had children, and invited the doctors who had treated her to their silver wedding. And when she was dying many years later, she bequeathed her heart to the First Medical Institute. So that they would remember that a sick heart is healed by a loving heart… |
