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How to make Solzhenitsyn's "cancer case" in a fiction

In 1954, writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn ended up in a Tashkent hospital with a cancer tumor. Almost 10 years later, he will write a “cancer corps”, which is better than any statistics or reports of the Ministry of Health talks about what it was like to lie with cancer in the dispensary. There is such an episode in this book:

When Proshka, already with certificates, joyfully climbed the stairs, in the upper lobby he met Kostoglotov and showed him:

- And the seals of Kruglenki, the axis of it!

One certificate was at the station with a request to give the patient a ticket to the patient with such and such an operation. (If you do not write about the operation, the patients were sent into a common tail at the station, and they could not leave for two days and three.)

And in another certificate - for a medical institution at the place of residence, it was written:

Tumor Cordis casus inoperabilis.

- So sho is written there? - Proshka asked carelessly, taking the certificate.

“H-Deck knows him,” the Kostoglot’s mouth twisted, and his scar grimaced too. - Such cunning doctors have become, you will not read.

Two dry phrases in Latin in the certificate were translated as "the tumor of the heart, a case that is not amenable to surgery." Further fate of pricks can be traced, having ideas about the then domestic medicine. In a pharmacy, the guy will receive an “ascorbic” by registration until the day, until a relapse happens, which will break off his life.

Tumor Cordis casus inoperabilis Twisting this quote this example described in the novel is not invented. That is how in Soviet hospitals they got rid of those who would only in vain occupy beds. This cannibalist was forced - a shortage of places, expensive equipment, etc.

But none of this would have happened if the conditional Proshka had learned about his diagnosis in time. He, guided by the slopes of the “Avos”, worked without vacations and examinations on his collective farm/factory/machine-tractor station to fulfill the five-year plan until the pain from the inexorable tumor became stronger than socialist duty.

The yard is not 1954, but the 2015th. In the shabby walls of the 13th building of the Tashkent Oncology Dispensary, they have not been accepted for the long-night lobby in order to wait for their turn for examination. But only more sick cancer has become more. Today, by the age of 30, 48.3% of the population of Russia have blood relatives who had cancer.

As in the days described by Solzhenitsyn, the alienation of the state in relation to the health of its population, which it should serve, remains everyday life. Nevertheless, even in such a situation, there is a way to help yourself and others.

The Help Foundation helps to raise money to the Fund for the Prevention of Cancer and the Research Institute of Oncology. N.N. Petrova (St. Petersburg), which offer a simple solution to a big problem of late cancer. The forces of experts developed a prototype of software for the website and a project of applications for mobile phones, with which everyone can, without leaving home, pass a test and find out personal risks of the disease by one or another cancer, as well as draw up a schedule of preventive examinations.

By the age of 30, 48.3% of the population of Russia have blood relatives who were sick with cancer Twist this quote only, using regular preventive examinations , you can identify cancer in the first stages, when the fatal “Casus inoperaBilis” does not occur. The universal principle “warned, it means armed” works here in its entirety. In addition, the application will enable the user to sign up for examination in the Partner Partner clinics of the Prevention Fund. Such a personal assistant will be available to everyone. Health should not become the privilege of the elect. The fund plans not only to cover the prevention system of more than 300 thousand people in the first years of the project, but also to reduce mortality from cancer in this group by at least 50%.

In order to make the plot about the first a fiction of the writer, it is enough to sacrifice quite a bit of money. Suppose it will be 100 rubles. Do not be afraid to sacrifice a small amount, it is from them that large results are added up.

And now for comparison. The protagonist of the “cancerous corps” of Kostlots, with the onset of remission, was discharged from the hospital and accidentally hit the opening of the central department store in the local medical town. Passing by the windows, he was amazed at high prices (I remind you, it was 1954): a men's cloak - 350 rubles (monthly salary), a shirt - 60 rubles. Even before that, Kostlotov saw a barbecue shop and for the first time in 34 years of his life he tried a barbecue (one stick - three rubles). To donate 100 rubles today, you do not need to buy 33 sticks of barbecue or spend a third of the monthly salary.

All the money collected will be spent on the development of the necessary software, and the report on the work done will be published and available to everyone. And this will save you from many other publications - regular reports of suicides of hopelessly sick people who, perhaps, had a chance to escape if the necessary prevention had passed in advance.