At the outstanding cardiac surgeon Academician Vladimir Andreevich Almazov, in his office in the clinic of the First Medical Institute stood a bottle with a spirited heart. Each student knew the history of this heart. In the early 50's, when Almazov was still a student of the 4th year of the First Medical, a girl with a subacute septic endocarditis entered the clinic of the Institute. This terrible disease and now gives a large percentage of death, and then ...
She was considered hopeless. The girl kept the temperature under forty, her heart refused. It without any particular results was inspected by leading professors and, as usual, a string of interns. Among the trainees was one - talented and attentive ...
No, he did not offer a revolutionary method of treating endocarditis, he just fell in love - the girl was very pretty. I went to the ward every day, wore flowers. A dying girl also fell in love with him. And she slowly began to recover.
They got married, gave birth to children, and their doctors were invited to their silver wedding. And when, after many years, she was dying, she left her heart to the First Medical Institute. To remember - a sick heart is treated with a loving heart.