The Doctors' Case

We wish we had more crazy people

This is a story about doctors and ascetics. It is they who are increasingly getting into the criminal chronicles. They are called bribe-takers, they are blamed for all mortal sins, including murders - after all, someone must be to blame for everything? Here is another such story.

... "Once upon a time there was one woman," as director Andrei Smirnov would put it. She was and remains an urban lunatic - that is, a person who drives this world to change. Lyudmila Pyatikop moved to the city of Yartsevo in the Smolensk region from Kazakhstan during the last great migration of peoples associated with the search for all-Union self-identification. She showed her character right away: the water that flowed from the tap in her new house seemed doubtful to her, and she gave water samples for examination. The water turned out to be unsuitable for domestic use, but local authorities found a way out and turned off this unhealthy water personally for Lyudmila.

More than 8 years have passed since then. Luda carries water from a distant well, to the delight of fearless neighbors who have agreed to consume the unconsumable. At the same time, for the first time in her life, Lyuda applied to the ECHR - about water. She won the courts, she never received water, but she gained experience and enthusiasm. Both acquired qualities elevated her to the heights of the local authorities, which in 2007 decided to wipe themselves off and agreed with the appointment of Lyudmila as the head of the PEC No. 778 in Yartsevo - then we were just having parliamentary elections. Dehydrated Luda did not draw any conclusions and refused to sign the final protocol, which she considered falsified. As a result, they tried to accuse her of a criminal offense - embezzlement of public funds (she refused to hand over the protocol). But the times were vegetarian, and the case was eventually closed. Then Luda did something completely unthinkable: for example, she reinstated 11 people who had been illegally dismissed from the Foundry and Rolling Plant. In general, walkers were drawn to Lyuda.

One fine day in 2010, relatives of the huntsman Ivan Avdeev turned to her. The ranger witnessed a group of people, including law enforcement officers, hunting wild boars in a protected area during the season closed for hunting. The huntsman could not stand it, quit, and then disappeared. Relatives turned to the police department, where they shrugged, and as a result, the wife found a non-drinking Ivan in a sobering-up station. Ivan was badly beaten, and it was those same forgetful police officers who brought him to the institution. Ivan was called an ambulance, he was taken to the hospital, where doctors Shevchenko (traumatologist) and Voitenko (anaesthetist) were on duty. Upon arrival at the hospital, the huntsman died. Relatives wrote to the police department a statement about the murder, the regional media conducted a journalistic investigation, and in the end they managed to initiate a case, and then punish one of the perpetrators, he took the collective blame (they beat the huntsmen en masse) on himself. It was Luda who broke this whole story.

However, the investigation did not want to look for anyone else and at first (traditionally) tried to make the ambulance paramedic guilty. When they failed, they turned to doctors. It was then that it turned out that the investigation got not just provincial doctors: in combination, both turned out to be civil activists. One (candidate of medical sciences, anesthesiologist Sergei Voitenko) already had ten years of experience in dealing with the theft of drugs from the hospital, the other (traumatologist Valery Shevchenko) also turned out to be not sugar and tried in every possible way to expose the cops.

It was with Shevchenko that they started: a year later they opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence). And already in 2012, they tried to convict Voitenko under the same article, only the patient was different. Two different cases against two doctors were conducted by one investigator (V.V. Skakunov), concurrently the son of a well-known local judge. Doctor Shevchenko was given a 2-year suspended sentence, forbidden to engage in any medical activity and leave the territory of the district. Voytenko was a witness in the Shevchenko case and was called to court. The same judge, some time later, suddenly issued a decision on the appointment of Voitenko for a psychiatric examination at the Institute. Serbian. That is, the cops and the judge tried to quietly close the "doctors' case" under the pretext of doctoral insanity - they decided to cover up the shame with psychiatry. Why did the examination turn into a forced detention in a psychiatric dispensary - already in Moscow. And without a court order.

Dr. Voitenko is still there, in the madhouse. Lyuda Pyatikop went to the head physician, drew his attention to the violation of the law "On psychiatric care and guarantees of the rights of citizens in its provision" and reminded that Dr. Voitenko was not in custody, that he had come voluntarily. I wrote a request to the prosecutor's office, then went to a solitary picket. And, of course, she wrote to the ECHR, since she has experience.

Lyuda and I sat after that picket, and I was afraid to ask about her own diagnosis. She didn't tell me, but I knew that Lyuda was supposed to die last spring. Yes, cancer. But Lyuda looks great and tries to wash my windows, she can’t sit down for tea. Luda guessed and told herself: there was an unsuccessful chemotherapy, in the oncology dispensary the drug was injected subcutaneously, and not intravenously, sepsis began. By that time, the defendants, doctors Shevchenko and Voytenko, arrived at Lyuda's, took Lyuda from the dispensary and saved her.

Blessed memory of the huntsman Ivan, who introduced them. And there would be more crazy people like Lyuda Pyatikop and two doctors from Smolensk.