Today Russia celebrates the Day of medical worker. Doctors, nurses and paramedics congratulate on their professional holiday on the third Sunday of June for over 40 years.
For many families, this holiday has become almost the main of the year. Elena Lychkovskaya more than 40 years as a doctor, her daughter Natalia Agapova Olga Ilyuncheva — practitioners who help people for more than 20 years. Now Natalia Agapova head of admission Department of city clinical hospital named after M. P. Konchalovsky, Olga Ilyuncheva works as a doctor-endocrinologist at the psychiatric clinical hospital № 1 named after N. And. Alekseev. In their family, six people have tied their fate with medicine.
Mos.ru talked to doctors and learned what it was like to grow up in a family of doctors, not do they regret about your choice and what you need to know young professionals.
How many people in your family have dedicated your life to medicine?
Natalya Agapova: Watch: grandparents, Olga and Dmitry Polyakov, veterinarians, doctors of medical Sciences and Professor. They were engaged in scientific activity: study of disease, including and related to humans and animals, invented the vaccine. My father’s aunt, Natalia Novitskaya, head of the Department in pediatric infectious observation in Sevastopol during the war. The Pope himself, Robert Lychkovskaya, was a surgeon, mom was engaged in laboratory diagnostics, in charge of the lab at the sanatorium.
Another uncle-twins — Igor and Yuri Polyakov. Yuri was an emergency room physician, died at age 42 of a heart attack. Igor Polyakov, microbiologist, virologist, mycologist, doctor of veterinary Sciences. At the time, he invented a vaccine and went to work in Germany.
Well, my sister.
Why you decided to go into medicine? Did your family feel about your choice?
Elena Lychkovskaya: I went to the health is likely influenced by the parents. They were veterinarians, engaged in scientific activity.
Natalya Agapova: When you grow up in a family of doctors, when you hear talk about the medicine, the childhood understand, what you want to do. I knew that I would be a doctor, from the time when just starting to realize itself. To help someone — in our blood.
Dad was a surgeon, he is often called. He advised on the phone, often frustrated and left for the surgery. It’s all happening before our eyes. So from childhood, it was clear what my sister will choose the road.
Olga Ilyuncheva: Yes, I’m another profession or imagined. The pressure from family was not unique. Parents in the evenings, talked about the medicine, discuss the situation that occurred at work. Listening to the conversation, starting around the part to understand. You see the attitude of parents to work and PAC��customers.
And after 12 years lay in the hospital, I began to play doctor at home. I liked how everything in the hospital works, how the temperature was measured, as was doing the rounds. That’s what I tolerate in their games.
— how decided on their specialty?
Elena Lychkovskaya: First, I graduated from medical school, then enrolled at first medical Institute (First Moscow state medical University named after I. M. Sechenov’s approx. mos.EN). He worked for seven years as a district doctor, then worked on the ambulance. Only after that I finished residency in laboratory diagnostics. I liked to do this.
Maybe it really is something genetic there, because my mom is always with a microscope worked. I loved working with biological material, to see it firsthand and even make diagnoses based on it. Sometimes, unfamiliar doctors in our medical unit knew me and were thankful for the accuracy.
Natalya Agapova: I wanted to be a therapist, I really wanted to become a surgeon. I remember as a child dad did some bandaging, I enjoyed doing it. But when I graduated, my dad told me that a woman needs to choose either the surgery or the family. This specialty requires spending a lot of time at work with patients.
Then I chose gastroenterology — I was interested to examine the internal organs. Later became a therapist. Now, maybe sometimes I regret not having become a surgeon (laughs).
Olga Ilyuncheva: I also liked the surgery. I enrolled in medicine at the Moscow state medical dental University named A. I. Evdokimov. After the third year, combining his studies at the Institute, I got a job as a nurse in the Department of endocrinology. And I worked there until the end of the Institute, I had night shift and weekend daily. As a result, this specialty I rooted soul, surgery has faded into the background. The choice of profession have no regrets. I think I’m doing a good job.
Who can name a landmark in your profession?
Olga Ilyuncheva: first and foremost is my father. To him constantly and asked for help, thank you. I also wanted to help people. For example, when we lived in the village during summer, the father went everywhere. Once he helped one farmer. He caught the rooster, and he remained a spur. There were no hospitals, no clinic. Father was taken for any injury, illness, even if it was not his profile. He could take responsibility for the health of the patient.
In endocrinology I, too, was a man who became an example for me. This is my teacher Ninella Starkov, unfortunately, already dead. Ninella Trofimovon headed the endocrinology course, wrote many scientific papers under her name came out tutorials. She was wise, calm, thoughtful and also tried to help everyone — both students and patients.
Natalya Agapova: of Course, it’s dad. He was an amazing, passionate person. Surgeon, proctologist, doing anacoluthia, was at the forefront of transplantation. For 13 years he hasn’t been with us. He was cancer — sick what were fighting. It is for my sister was always such a beacon, which we were going.
Elena Lychkovskaya: Yes, they have a very close relationship. With my father it was interesting to talk about everything. They’ve seen how people treat him, how to seek it. He did very serious work attitude. The husband wanted all daughters themselves saw and felt. They both worked for him when he was in high school. I also supported them in the choice of profession and helped them.
Natalya Agapova: Yes, while still in school, I visited dad at work, he took me to surgery. Medical students, adult children, fainted, and I watched with interest.
Children are going to continue your case?
Natalya Agapova: My daughter didn’t go into medicine, and my son is 12, he is thinking about it.
Olga Ilyuncheva: My youngest daughter wanted to go into medicine was applied. But, unfortunately, she almost had enough points for admission. As a result, she chose pharmacy, which is also close. Already joined the study, is planning in the summer to work in the pharmacy an assistant pharmacist. And my eldest daughter is completing the third year of the faculty of clinical psychology University of psychology and education. So both plan to work in related fields.
— What is so interesting about medicine?
Olga Ilyuncheva: I like to work is like a puzzle, when you ask some sort of problem and you are interested to solve it. Of course, there are routine cases. For example, diabetes. It is a common disease, it is well understood, therefore the treatment process you’re using certain algorithms of actions. But there are rare endocrine diseases, when you need to think, need more research methods that are not everywhere carried out. When diagnosed, it brings satisfaction.
Natalya Agapova: is The best, when you see a good man from what you’re doing. A man comes with his pain, and you’re helping him. This is probably the most pleasant that can be.
the worst?
Natalya Agapova: the Most difficult to see a patient who can no longer help. Patients who are doomed to live with a particular illness or which is very long. With this I still can not accept, still probustesse it through. I had the opportunity to work for a year in the nursing Department where lay cancer patients, heavy. Get used to it it is impossible, each time a part of you dies.
— How the pandemic has affected your work?
Olga Ilyuncheva: Our hospital works with patients who have discovered COVID-19, redeveloped two buildings. I work with doctors and nurses who assist in the “dirty” zone. I consult them remotely, because parallel work with patients who have not discovered coronavirus, and access to the “dirty” zone I is prohibited. I messenger send the results of the analyses, I control the sugar level.
We doctors, in any epidemic are working. It’s such a specialty when you don’t think about yourself, think about what you need to do and do it.
Natalya Agapova: Our hospital was not converted. Planned hospitalization, we recommended to postpone, mostly worked on the ambulance. If you have identified a patient with a coronavirus, it was placed in a box and transported to the redeveloped hospital. All of our doctors were provided with protection. Worked hard, of course. But the main threat has passed, gradually return to a normal life.
What can you recommend to young professionals who are just coming into the profession?
Elena Lychkovskaya: They should think about the main thing: if they want to help people. We were raised, then trained doctors that really helped people.
Natalya Agapova: In medicine should go to the person who is sick with medicine. If people can not live without it, so this is his way.
Olga Ilyuncheva: I would recommend you to go and see how doctors work. Get a nurse or come as a volunteer to practice to see yours or not. Can you with all my heart and dedication to devote my life to this profession? Until you see how it works, you do not understand, you need this specialty or not.
