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"I'm just an oncologist"
Anna Kim is only 24, but she manages to work, advise, write a book and study again. Otherwise it is impossible: Anna is an oncologist, and in oncology everything is constantly changing
Help not to help in vainSunglasses are shifted to the crown, long black hair flows over the shoulders, a mischievous and warm smile. Anna is a young doctor. I ask: "Why medicine?" Smiles: they say, it's like asking the patient: "Well, what happened to you?" And, sitting next to me in a cafe, he tells a cup of tea.
What is needed for the future
Both mom and dad have doctors, she herself was sure: medicine was not for her. At first I thought that she would be a primary school teacher, then a journalist. “Literally before the 11th grade I realized that there is nowhere to study in Volgograd, except at the medical university. Everything else is something incomprehensible that you can’t touch. ”
She began to intensively engage in chemistry and biology, she explained her decision as follows: it is necessary for the future, and there we'll see.
Summer. Surgery practice. Anna classmates assist in operations-for some reason only boys. "I thought:" And what am I? Not a person, not a doctor, or what? " And I also decided to try. It would be better not to go: I would not know what it is, and would live calmly. But it turned out that it was cool! " Anna found out that surgery in the oncology dispensary was considered the best, went there “just look” - and stayed there until the sixth year. In the male company, to her own surprise, she took root, along with senior colleagues wrote several scientific articles. Constantly, at every opportunity to learn something new, gained courage and approached adult doctors and professors, asked for practice, for internships. I felt: just a university education is not enough.
The company of Mr. Desessar
About the Higher School of Oncology - VSU - Anna learned from her friend. At first it seemed that it was something distant and unrealistic, a project, into which only ten people from all over the country are selected: “There is such an expression: if the mountain does not go to Mohammed, then Magomet goes to the grief. It seems to me that this is not so - they always go to each other. ”
Anna photo: Sergey Strolev for TDJust at that time, the founder of the VSU and the Cancer Prevention Fund, oncologist Ilya Fomintsev, came to Volgograd. The city was held in the city for the prevention and early detection of breast cancer "Pink ribbon in your city." Anna was a volunteer at this action: she helped organize mass inspections and consultations and attended them herself. I got courage again, went to Fomintsev - immediately with the words: “I understand that this is cool, but I probably don’t pull. How much will it cost to act to you to just listen to lectures? " Fomintsev Anna did not understand: “What money?! What are we talking about? "
Competition - hundreds of people in place. Of those who did not act, but showed themselves well at the entrance tests, then formed a bullet of the volunteers, the so -called company of Mr. Desessar - in honor of the company, from where D'Artagnan came out in the "three musketeers". Anna hoped to join at least such a company. But she succeeded - she acted and became a full -fledged resident of VSU in St. Petersburg.
Anna photo: Sergey Strolev for TDExams in VSU - a multi -stage process. First you need to send a resume, getting into the number of 400 best graduates of medical universities from all over the country, who will be selected for further tests. Then solve the clinical problems of general medicine. And also go through a special competition that reveals the ability to think non -standard. Two years ago, when Anna arrived, he was called “Who knows where the Holy Grail?”: It was necessary to answer the question of how cancer and aging were connected. Anna no longer remembers what answer gave, but remembers how she sorted out library signs, wrote out books, leafed through them one after another to find. And I found something like "aging and cancer are connected." Dot. The books were the 80-70s: “After all, they always said to us:“ Here's a textbook for you, let's learn. ”
There is a completely different approach to VCU. Here they are taught to work with the latest research and constantly update their knowledge.
"You are not to blame"
What to do if, for example, the patient’s daughter is suitable for you, who is not the first time in intensive care, and asks: “Isn't that all in vain?”
Anna photo: Sergey Strolev for TDHow to communicate with patients and their relatives, Anna and other young oncologists are also taught - primarily Vadim Gushchin, director of the Mercy Medical Center surgical oncology department in Baltimore.
Anna says: “The first moment - you give a person to understand that you hear him. And at the same time, you specify what exactly he asks you about. Patients ask: "Why am I?" You try to explain that we are all looking for justice, but, unfortunately, no one promised us it. The world is generally unfair. You got sick because it happened. Because it rains because the sun is shining. You are not to blame. "
Anna photo: Sergey Strolev for TDHow many people are so many stories, so many questions. It is important for someone to understand whether he will have time to let his son out of school-and then we must talk about the forecast, about the expected life expectancy. And someone is afraid to be treated because the hair will fall out-and then we must delicately explain that it is temporary, quite short and that you can make a wig from your own hair. Anna herself has long, thick hair. She involuntarily touches them, recalling her conversation with patients. “The principle of Patient Centricity (“ focus on the patient ”),” she says thoughtfully. “He will help not only work normally, but also not to burn out.”
Just ask
Ten people a year for the whole country - it would seem very few. But these ten people create a real community around them, involving more and more new specialists in it, starting from the "company of Mr. Desessar"-talented students who, for some reason, did not enter the VSU, but became volunteer-and ending with the already held doctors.
Anna photo: Sergey Strolev for TD“When you already know something, you need to broadcast this information further. Your younger colleague, your senior colleague, says Anna. - It is very important to transmit information so that the VSU is a self -reproducing system. Explain is the best way to learn the material yourself and understand what you still lack. Then you say: “We have to pull up the wishness, I will tell you the next time.”
Information is constantly updated. Even what was relevant in 2018 has already been updated. How are things going on today? What else turned out? What other studies are completed and exposed? "
Anna answers the questions also in the "Just ask" service. Like VSU, this is a project of the Cancer Prevention Fund. Everyone can ask any question about the treatment of cancer on the project website. For free. Twice a day, Anna and other oncologists from VSU views questions and carefully prepare answers for each. They consult with each other and with their like -minded people, the best specialists throughout the country. They suggest where to contact, what questions should be asked by the attending physician, who and where to get a second opinion, what additional examinations to undergo, they will find out if there are preparations necessary for him in the right institution, and understand difficult cases. All this is in free time from the main work.
"It is interesting to help the patient"
The main work of Anna is now in the Pirogov high medical technology clinic in St. Petersburg. This year, she had already managed to pass the internships on the basis of the Republican Oncology Disption in Kazan, in the clinic on the basis of the Botkin Hospital in Moscow, in the Leningrad Oncology Dispensary. At one time, he literally torn between the dispensary in Kuzmolovo and the clinic on the fountain. He says that he is confused when the day, and when the night, especially since in St. Petersburg the sky is almost always gray. But there is the Gulf of Finland, and they can be admired at any time of the year and in any weather. Come, exhale, get together with thoughts. And work further.
Anna photo: Sergey Strolev for TDNow Anna began to lead Instagram , where she talks about breast cancer. In addition, together with his mentor, two more clinical residents and one graduate of VSU, he writes the book “Breast cancer in questions and answers”. Already on the way to the metro, Anna suddenly takes out prints from the pile and shows several pages with recommendations for patients: “I don’t want to be associated with the mammary gland, although I understand this more than the rest. I am an oncologist, just an oncologist, I am interested in everything that concerns oncology, it is interesting to help the patient. ” And it helps.
Anna photo: Sergey Strolev for TDThe Higher School of Oncology is the only educational project in its kind, thanks to which Anna and other best graduates of the country's medical offers learn to solve the most difficult medical problems, monitor the latest research, constantly update their knowledge, and all this is for the sake of the patient. Around the VSU, a whole community of new generation cancer is gradually formed. Support the Higher School of Oncology - and in difficult times these doctors will support you and your loved ones like no other.
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