Fortress doctors

Doctors are silent. You call, ask to tell what is happening - no, what you are forbidden to us. No, that you, they will fire me. No, I can’t under the record, the head physician told us who is dissatisfied with - to the exit. Single daredevils dare to speak anonymously.

-You can mention the debt-a doctor (nurse)?

- No, it is better not to, tell me just - an employee.

Separately, they are not afraid of anything and speak out loud, not hiding the face - but they literally once, two and, and, most importantly, their example does not change anything in the overall picture. Such a daredevil will perform-and in fact a normal free person, like the same Marianna Zamyatin or the doctor of the Intercession Hospital, Sergei Sayapin, you will be inspired, you will start calling others-and again: no, no, you just don’t name the name ...

You listen to all this, and the words of one historian revolve in your head about the fact that the main troubles of Russia are not fools and roads, but autocracy and serfdom. Not the one that was once spoiled for a long time, but that which is obtained from each subsequent power, as from a sewing machine is a Kalashnikov machine gun.

On the one hand, it seems that there are no more collective farms with non -passport slaves - but there was no free farming in its place. But the recruitment is on the spot. Both hospitals and clinics slowly turned into a kind of collective farms with chairmen-tsars. And as the chairmen of the collective farms kept the party authorities in his fist, forcing to sow buckwheat so and on such squares, despite the soils and climate, and then removed their heads for low crops, and the chief physicians hold the local authorities-whom the heads of districts, whom the governors, removing the skin for incorrect indicators. Which are transmitted to the most important top, and they must create such a picture that there, below, the sun always shines.

That is, there, below, there can not be enough means of personal protection, drugs, tests, under the words “IVL devices” somewhere in a provincial hospital cannot hide the iron scrap of the Soviet era that kills the lungs, there can be no ancient rusty ambulance machines with unwatted brigades, rolled hospital walls and imperial doctors. Because in those happy places where the queens-soldiers and their wise retinue rule, nothing should insult the eyes of the rulers. Because the rulers do not like to look there at all, they like to solve world problems, and the news that where there are dirty, hungry and painful, it causes an expression of disgusting boredom on their face.

Their silence is still not just the silence of the victims. This is also the silence of the accomplices. Yes, yes, because sacrificing yourself is the right of everyone, but no one has the right to sacrifice others

The one to whom the comparison of hospitals with collective farms will seem somewhat dashing, I can send to the article “The director forbade quarantine to close”. This is about how the chief oncologist of Russia did not cover the oncocenter quarantine - the Institute. Herzen, despite the fact that there were massive infection of doctors and patients, so some even died: it is known that for those who have almost zero immunity, the virus is especially dangerous. But the chief oncologist hid the infection, forced everyone to work without taking a break for disinfection even during the May holidays, and only on May 25 the doctors could not stand it and talked about all the head of the “Alliance of Doctors” Anastasia Vasilieva, who was immediately subjected to the injury on the VGTRK channel, and doctors to threats.

But this means that the silence of the doctors, who, of course, risk heroically, go to work without PPE, not daring to disobey the head physician, completely and do not receive the laid money - their silence is still not just the silence of the victims. This is also the silence of the accomplices. Yes, yes, because sacrificing yourself is the right of everyone, but no one has the right to sacrifice others. Because the fear of losing work and quarreling with the authorities humanly understandable, but there are cases when fear is directly contradictory with the oath of Hippocrates.

All doctors swore never to do anything to the patient, but if they, out of fear, go to work without personal protective equipment and become a source of infection for all new patients, for their colleagues, for public transport passengers, for their home, then they carry out a criminal order. And that means, in fact, they are at the same time with those head physicians whom they are blocked for all the crusts for their eyes.

Nevertheless, I can’t understand - is it really a fear of infecting and dying to fade before fear to object to the head physician and be dismissed?

I called a long -standing acquaintance, a doctor, and she immediately stood up with a corporation, screaming - with you, no one wants to do with journalists, because you all need fried, scandals and horrors, all you are a yellow press, and we need to work, and not chatting, and all your horror stories are one lies. I called another friend - she says: you know, and this is understandable why they are silent. Because the truth will be fired.

I say - well, well, this is a big trouble, of course, but those doctors who worked without protection and died are no longer needed work. She says-yes, everyone understands this, but they hope that she will somehow carry it, and if you object to the bosses, then you will be fired in such a way that you will get anywhere for a long time. And the doctor must regularly confirm the qualifications, and if he has a break in his work, he simply will not confirm it next year.

-Understand? - says my friend. “But we studied so much, we spent so much strength on it that they are no longer worthless.” It's like taking your life and crossing out your life.

But if the state of affairs is such that the doctor is facing the choice daily, observe the hippocratic oaths or say goodbye to the profession, and the official is lying on the number of infected and the dead daily, and how many free beds are left, the Titanic, in which we are still more or less, have already fled to the iceberg.

My mother was a doctor. And grandfather was at one time a very famous surgeon. So I least want to rush stones at doctors - it turns out that as if I throw in them.

I recall what kind of mother was carrying on her own - operations, sick, teaching, one day off per week - how early burned, and I understand: there was a serf. I recall family legends about how grandfather is with her truth against her main - a talented surgeon, but a terrible careerist and a bribe taker - and got a stroke. Then, a memorable board was hung with a regional authority, and the grandmother had been called with tears for a long time people whom his grandfather saved, because no one took, and he was at his own peril and risk ... - And there was no end to this.

How would mom and grandfather behave today? They would try to work honestly without violating anything without infecting themselves and without infecting anyone - if they had to stop by doctors for this? I have no answer.

Sofya Rogacheva - journalist, poet

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