The outstanding cardiac surgeon academic Vladimir Andreevich Almazov in his office in the clinic of the First Medical Institute stood a glass with a spirited heart. Every student knew the history of this heart. In the early 1950s, when Almazov was still a student of the 4th course of the First Medical, a girl with subacute septic endocarditis entered the clinic of the institute. This is a terrible disease and now gives a high percentage of mortality, and then...
She was considered hopeless. The girl had a fever below forty, the heart refused. It was examined without special results by leading professors and, as usual, a bunch of interns. Among the practitioners was one – talented and attentive.
No, he didn’t offer a revolutionary method of treating endocarditis, he just fell in love – the girl was very nice. I went to the house every day, wearing flowers. The dying girl also loved him. I slowly recovered.
They married, gave birth to children, and invited the doctors who treated her to their silver wedding. When she died many years later, she gave her heart to the First Medical Institute. To remember, a sick heart is treated by a loving heart.