EVERY DAY, SVETLANA, A PATIENT OF THE P.HETRSEN MOSCOW ONCOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, WRITES POEMS AND DEDICATES THEM TO HER DOCTORS.

Dear friends! On the eve of the New Year, we have collected for you the most unusual stories from patients of the

FSBI “National Medical Research Radiological Centre” (NMRRC) of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

They are not about illness, not about hard fate and not even about the struggle for life… They are stories about relationships and friendship between our doctors and patients, about deep gratitude for life and the memory that each of them cherishes in their hearts. The first story is about a Muscovite Svetlana Ryabinina, who almost daily writes and sends us her poems, dedicating them to doctors, patients and all people.

Svetlana found out about the diagnosis in 2022, when she noticed a small mass on her face after suffering from covitis. At the reception in a private clinic, the doctor hurried to reassure: an ordinary mole. But a woman’s intuition did not fail. Svetlana went for a consultation with an oncodermatologist, who almost immediately, without knowing the results of the biopsy, concluded that it was basalioma (one of the types of malignant skin tumors). After the necessary examinations and consultations, the diagnosis was confirmed. I had to look for a clinic and “my” doctor who would perform the operation. Svetlana’s friends and acquaintances offered to help. They found a specialist at Botkin Hospital, where she made an appointment.

And again, as if by intuition, or maybe by chance, Svetlana came to us, to the P.Hertsen MORI. The thing is that the way to Botkin Hospital passed by the P.Hertsen MORI, which is located literally next door. Svetlana saw the chapel to St. Panteleimon and decided to come and pray. And then she saw the name of the building near which she stopped – the P. Hertsen Moscow Oncology Research Institute.

Svetlana realized that she wanted to be treated here. She made an appointment for a consultation and finally got to see “her” doctor – Oleg Matorin, an oncologist at the Microsurgical Department of the P. Hertsen Moscow Oncology Research Institute. “I immediately believed Oleg Vladimirovich, who explained everything to me in detail and outlined a plan of examinations and treatment. I clearly followed all his recommendations and prepared for the surgery to remove the basalioma,” Svetlana recalls. Everything went well and since then they have been linked not only by their joint path to recovery, but also by good human relations. Every three months Svetlana visits our Institute and undergoes check-ups to hear the cherished words: “You are healthy!”

On New Year’s Eve, we recorded a video interview with Svetlana after her regular checkup. She told us that it was her desire to share her love and gratitude to doctors that motivated her to create.

By the way, Svetlana is a preschool teacher, and creating poems is her favorite hobby, which she has been fond of since 2011. Today, she has already published three collections of poems, and she presented one of them – “My Refuge of the Soul” – to us.