I want to express my deep grat­i­tude to the onco­colo­proc­tol­ogy depart­ment where I had an oper­a­tion. It does not smell like a hos­pi­tal! Here, even on the faces of peo­ple who, after an oper­a­tion, bare­ly move their feet, there is no expres­sion of inescapable suf­fer­ing. They love life and work for life here!

My doc­tor Savanovich Nina Vik­torov­na needs a sep­a­rate men­tion­ing. She deserves not a brief review but a seri­ous essay. Nina Vik­torov­na seems quite young. And the first thing that comes to mind is: «God! So frag­ile, so beau­ti­ful! What is she doing here, in this refuge of pain, suf­fer­ing, in this field of strug­gle with the inevitable?» But this is only until you become her patient. I do not want to say «patient» because you meet pri­mar­i­ly with the eyes of a human. They look at you not as an organ sen­tenced to resec­tion, an inter­est­ing case for a sur­geon, but as a close mate. You imme­di­ate­ly find your­self under guardian­ship, you are treat­ed kind­ly, respect­ful­ly by encour­ag­ing eyes of a sis­ter, a daugh­ter, a grand­daugh­ter, a girl­friend. They make pre­scrip­tions to you, explain in acces­si­ble lan­guage what will hap­pen to your body in the course of treat­ment, patient­ly answer ques­tions from rel­a­tives, friends, and even draw for clar­i­ty. You are allowed to com­plain, to be a lit­tle whim­sy — the doc­tor’s response is always com­pas­sion­ate and effec­tive. You feel pres­sure in your chest — she is call­ing a car­di­ol­o­gist; intesti­nal prob­lems, stitch­es are aching — she will sort this out. And the next thing you see: the car­di­ol­o­gist is already here and lis­ten­ing, the nurse on duty makes an injec­tion .… And the next morn­ing a snow white, smelling of spring, sun­ny Nina Vik­torov­na will flut­ter into the ward. And anx­i­ety gives way to con­fi­dence — Nina Vik­torov­na will do every­thing in her pow­er to save, and in hope­less cas­es, pro­long life, with­out caus­ing unnec­es­sary pain, nei­ther phys­i­cal nor mental.

It would be fair to call all the nurs­es — sis­ters: Sve­ta, Zhenya, Masha, Natasha and oth­ers, those who weren’t men­tionet excuse me, all are very dili­gent and kind nurs­es who know and love their work. You should have seen huge kind eyes of house­keep­ing nurse Zoya Niko­laev­na! She is ready to help and helps in every­thing, you can con­tact her on any issue — she will help both in deed and word. She meets patients like a real host of her house: with a kind smile on her face, you imme­di­ate­ly become calm and lose fear. Every morn­ing she enters the ward, casu­al­ly sorts out the blan­ket, shines her smile, will find a spe­cial word for each patient — and patients wait for the morn­ing when the first tones of her ring­ing always cheer­ing voice will be audi­ble, her voice means that she is here, with them, it means every­thing will be fine! The hos­pi­tal aides Olya, Tanya, Lyu­ba, Sve­ta, try to feed every­one, give every­one atten­tion and care. And what a dif­fi­cult job the treat­ment nurse Tanech­ka has, who makes intra­venous injec­tions and drop­pers (how dif­fi­cult it is — it’s even impos­si­ble to imag­ine). Olya — the ban­dag­ing nurse is the longest work­ing in this hos­pi­tal and does her job perfectly.

As a whole, the entire staff of the depart­ment, start­ing from the head — a pro­fes­sion­al of inter­na­tion­al class, a mas­ter of the high­est lev­el, the head of the onco­colo­pro­clo­gy depart­ment Chernikovskiy Ilya Leonidovich — are all very atten­tive, calm, kind-mind­ed peo­ple, each of whom is in the right posi­tion, knows and ful­fills his mis­sion and is reli­able sup­port for their patients who need their help! And I pray that peop­ple high­ly appre­ci­ate their indis­pens­able work, because health is every­thing and we are noth­ing with­out health. And I want their eyes to light up because of ours words of grat­i­tude! Tru­ly, they are also very mod­est peo­ple, which deserves even more admi­ra­tion! We wish them to remain just as human and patient, despite the whim­sy, dif­fi­cult patients and the incred­i­bly hard, respon­si­ble work. And thank you once again for your hero­ic and ded­i­cat­ed work! Good health, good luck and hap­pi­ness to all of You! On behalf of, I will not be afraid of this word — of ALL patients of the Depart­ment of OCP.