The medical secret of the personal life of Alexander Myasnikov. About the most important thing with Dr. Myasnikov text Alexander Myasnikov who really is

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Myasnikov Alexander Leonidovich is a talented, extraordinary, purposeful doctor and scientist who was born into a famous dynasty of doctors and healers of the 19th century. How did he achieve success and what is he hiding in his personal life? Let's find out below.

Biography

According to sources, a talented boy was born September 15, 1953 in the city of Leningrad (today St. Petersburg) in a family of doctors. According to the horoscope, Virgo is a modest, impeccable, scrupulous and very neat man. Unfortunately, there is no information about his early childhood. But he remembers his parents in more detail in the book " PEDIGREE. LETTERS TO SON LENA".

Parents in their youth

Alexander's father - Leonid Alexandrovich, a famous doctor of medical sciences and professor, who unfortunately died in early age(45 years old) from kidney cancer. Mother Olga also worked in medicine. The boy's parents soon divorced when he was only 6 years old. As you know, his father married a second time and Alexander had a paternal brother, Leonid (also a doctor and anesthesiologist).

Alexander with his mother

Early years

After graduating from school, the guy applied to Moscow Medical Institute named after. N.I. Pirogov and graduated successfully in 1976. Next were long years residency and postgraduate training in Institute of Clinical Cardiology named after A.L. Myasnikova, and then defending a Ph.D. dissertation.

Career

His career begins with very hard work abroad. First, he was sent to Africa (Mozambique) as part of a group of geologists who explored deposits in hard-to-reach areas South Africa. He likes to work here, because as a doctor, he is used to helping people.

Even after the group broke up due to hostilities, he did not return to his homeland, but remained to work in Africa. First, in the Zambezi province as a general practitioner, and then in Angola, he consulted with local doctors.

In Angola

Alexander Leonidovich also worked a lot in France and the USA. In the latter country he also studied, defended his medical degree and received the title of doctor of the highest category from the American Board of Medicine.

According to sources, Myasnikov is the former chief physician of the Kremlin hospital (he worked there for one year from 2009 to 2010), and today heads the City Clinical Hospital No. 71.

Dr. Myasnikov became known to a wide audience thanks to various programs about medicine on television and books written about a healthy lifestyle.

On television, he first hosts a television program on medical topics. “Did you call the doctor?”, and then from 2013 - “About the most important things:) with Dr. Myasnikov”. It is also known that he hosted a column about medicine on Vesti FM radio.

"Vesti FM"

Interesting Facts

According to the media, in the house of Alexander Leonidovich there is a large collection of stuffed wild and exotic animals. According to the doctor, he often likes to go hunting with his friends, but since he is far from a professional in this matter, such trophies are given to him by his colleagues.

In one of his interviews, Dr. Myasnikov shared his impressions of TV series about doctors, because sometimes he watches them to compare his real work with the movies. According to him, American films "House" and "ER" filmed more professionally than domestic ones, which he prefers not to watch at all.

It is known that the chief physician eats properly every day. His daily diet includes about half a kilogram of vegetables and half a kilogram of fruit. As for meat, he prefers dietary varieties, but he tries to eat red meat no more than twice a week. Among drinks, he chooses coffee and drinks it without restrictions, and all because scientists have recently found that this aromatic, invigorating drink reduces the risk of myocardial infarction and also protects against liver cancer.

Alexander Leonidovich loves dogs and three handsome dogs live in his house: Margosha the Alabai and two St. Bernards. The doctor practically never gets sick, because he plays sports, leads a healthy lifestyle and goes to the bathhouse (he considers it the most powerful physiotherapeutic procedure).

According to sources, also lives in Dr. Myasnikov’s house beautiful red cat of the Maine Coon breed. His name is Aramis.

The doctor has his own Instagram page, where he sometimes shares fresh photos with his fans.

Favorite dogs

Personal life

Unfortunately, like most famous and public figures, the head physician tries not to bring his personal life into general discussion. He tells reporters very little about whether he has a wife and children. All that is known is that, as it turned out, Alexander loves his wife very much and values ​​​​family values. According to sources, in his youth he met exactly the only girl with whom he has been happily married for 33 years.

Father and son

Although this was not his first marriage, because he met his current wife in a very banal way: he came to a social reception with his first wife, where he met his future second wife and her groom. It was love at first sight and after this meeting they never parted again. Rumor has it that at that time it was she who supported Myasnikov in all his endeavors and traveled a lot with him.

The couple also have a son, Leonid (the name was given in honor of his grandfather). He is already quite an adult, studying in high school and already preparing to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a doctor too.

“The birth of a man of genius is not done impromptu. There is a long and complex preparation for the great event of wildlife. Genius, talent and giftedness, forming a series of adjacent gradations of the same phenomenon, are confined to certain family groups and genera and appear in the bosom of their biological soil from time to time, with unequal frequency. The fate of one hundred families, traced by French anthropologists over a distance of several centuries, showed that there are genera and families that, even over a fairly long period of time (up to seven centuries), gave only gray offspring without any traces of the “spark of God,” i.e. talent or giftedness. But other family groups provided, from time to time, gifted and talented representatives.”

Myasnikovs

The history of the family is connected with the town of Krasny Kholm, not far from Tver on the banks of the Neledina River (a tributary of the Volga).

Your great-great-grandfather was born here in 1859 in the family of merchant Alexander Ivanovich Myasnikov and his wife Anastasia Sergeevna (that was the name of your great-great-great-grandfather and great-great-great-grandmother). He grew up here and went to Moscow to enter the medical faculty of Moscow University. The first doctor of the dynasty!

After brilliantly graduating from the University, he was offered to stay in the clinic of the famous Russian therapist G.A. Zakhoryin, but your great-great-grandfather returned home to Krasny Kholm and became a “country doctor” - what is called a “general practitioner” today. He used his own money to maintain a hospital for the poor and was elected “city mayor” (mayor in our language). He did a lot of things for the city; one of the streets there is named after him even today.

Their firstborn is your famous great-grandfather, Alexander Leonidovich Myasnikov. Then another one was born - Lev Leonidovich. There were 2 more brothers and a sister, but they died in childhood from tuberculosis.

Your great-grandfather wrote about this:

“The death of children from tuberculosis in a family of enlightened doctors now seems strange, but at that time it was a common occurrence. At that time there were not even early diagnostic tools in the form of fluoroscopy, not to mention streptomycin, which appeared several decades later. I remember how many consumptive young girls visited my father's clinic; he prescribed creosote, fish fat; the rich could be advised to go to the southern coast of Crimea, the poor had to be treated with pine air in the village. “Enhanced nutrition with butter” (“to dissolve the wax capsules of Koch’s bacilli”), drinking cream (with or without agave and honey) – everything is not the same, my father thought then, the time will come and chemotherapy will appear. Oh, if only it were chemotherapy! the remedy was so terribly late! And the children would be alive, and these cute girls who were fading away, as well as these, still generally quite strong men, whose voice suddenly disappears - and they silently wheeze about something with their tubercular larynx... After all, they will all die in a year - one and a half."

With the outbreak of World War I, my great-great-grandfather enlisted in the Russian Army and was sent to the Caucasian Front to organize infirmaries (that’s what military hospitals were called). That’s when the Myasnikov family lived in Tbilisi, the doctor disappeared in hospitals, and his eldest teenage son (great-grandfather) studied at the very gymnasium on Rustaveli Street where you and I were. (A few years earlier N. Gumilyov also studied there.

In the year of the revolution - 1917 - the family did not run away to Paris, but returned home to Red Hill. Leonid Aleksandrovich organized the first eye surgical clinic in Russia, then during the typhus pandemic he organized hospitals for these patients, while he himself became infected and died on January 19, 1922.

Your great-grandfather remained the head of the family; he was already 23 then.

Just in 1917, he left Krasny Kholm for Moscow and followed in his father’s footsteps to the medical faculty of Moscow University. It is interesting that he himself adored literature and wanted to enroll in philology. And he even applied for philological documents. Then he felt sorry for his father and transferred them to medical school after all! Having become a doctor, he went to work in St. Petersburg, then he took his mother, Zinaida Konstantinovna, there. It was there in Leningrad that she later died during the Leningrad Siege during the Great Patriotic War.

Your great-grandfather’s brother Lev, “Uncle Levik,” as I called him, also survived the entire Leningrad blockade. He was also an extraordinary person.

Uncle Levik was born on February 16, 1905. After the death of his father in 1922, he came to his elder brother - your great-grandfather - in Leningrad and entered the Technological Institute. He became a physicist and studied acoustics. He published several fundamental works in the field of acoustics, worked in the defense industry - all acoustic installations on modern submarines became possible thanks to his work. He was an academician, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Died of a heart attack on October 22, 1972 at the age of 67. One of the research ships in the Baltic was named after him.

His children also became physicists and professors. And good athletes. One, Alexander, was a master of sports in mountaineering and one of the first to conquer the Pamirs. He died recently from cancer. I helped him as best I could, but lung cancer is incurable... The other was the USSR Champion in water skiing!

Your great-grandfather - Alexander Leonidovich Myasnikov (September 19, 1899 - November 19, 1965) - one of the founders of Soviet cardiology, academician, Chief Therapist of the Baltic Fleet during the War, laureate of the Golden Stethoscope Award, after whom the Institute of Cardiology in Moscow, in front of which stands, is named his monument. You will read his biography and his memoirs more than once, so here are only photos. They also show his wife - your great-grandmother, Inna Aleksandrovna Myasnikova, née Voznesenskaya.

Your great-grandmother, “Baba Inna,” as I called her, was from a priest’s family (which means your great-great-grandfather was a priest!).

Her grandfather - your great-great-great-grandfather on the female side - was the caretaker of the Peterhof fountains. There are no photos, they didn’t exist then! There were 4 sisters: my grandmother herself and: Aunt Nastya - died of a stroke in Leningrad, Aunt Ira - suffered from an illness thyroid gland(Bazed’s disease), the last years of her life she worked in St. Isaac’s Cathedral (by the way, they were all baptized there!), and Aunt Valya lived and died in Gelendzhik, where she went to pick up her husband. Baba Inna was also a doctor and even wrote a dissertation. She died on October 10, 1980 from a heart attack.

Inna Aleksandrovna Myasnikova (Voznesenskaya), your great-grandmother. Altai,
Belokurikha

Alexander Leonidovich – head. Department of Hospital Therapy 1st Moscow
medical institute. Right behind him is your grandmother Olya!

Your grandfather is my father, Leonid Aleksandrovich Myasnikov. You are named after him. Born on April 27, 1928 in Leningrad (later I was born in the same maternity hospital!). He grew up there, excluding the years of the War, when he was evacuated to Yaroslavl region in the small town of Tarutino. He was not ready for the war - he had not yet turned 18 when ours had already taken Berlin!

He left school for the Naval Academy and completed his secondary education there. Then he compromised with his family (how can he continue the dynasty! Doesn’t this remind you of anything?!) and entered the Naval Medical Academy.

And only then he transferred to the regular Leningrad Medical Institute, where he met my mother, grandmother Olya (in many photos they are young together).

Then I was born in 1953, a year later we moved to Moscow. He became a doctor, became a doctor of medical sciences, a professor, wrote several monographs, at the age of 37 he fell ill with kidney cancer and died at the age of 45 on November 24, 1974.

In the photo above is your grandfather and his brother Oleg. The photo was taken in the former
great-grandfather’s office at the Institute of Cardiology in Moscow on Petroverigsky
lane, where a monument to him stands today. My father was a deputy there
directors

They divorced my grandmother Olya when I was 6 years old. Then he married a half-Jewish, half-Ukrainian Nina Veniaminovna Baksht, and their son is your uncle Leonid Leonidovich Myasnikov, born in 1964 (February 8), also a doctor, anesthesiologist. He has a daughter, I have never seen her.

Your grandfather’s younger brother, Oleg, was born on September 3, 1938. He was a doctor, died early in car accident(August 1983, at the age of 45). There are two sons left, also doctors: Oleg and Alexander.

This is my grandfather’s (your great-grandfather’s) dacha on the Istra River, Krasnovidovo village,
which I grew up with. I still dream...

Grandmother Olya (Alieva Olga Khalilovna) was born on April 16, 1927 in Crimea in the city of Simferopol. Her mother is your great-great-grandmother Tevide (in the Russian manner - Tatyana, “Baba Tanya”) Suleymanovna Alieva (maiden name Ali-Suleiman, then from this came the patronymic in the Russian manner - Suleymanovna) - Crimean Tatar, also born on April 16, 1906 in Bakhchisarai ( Crimea) in a very wealthy family.

Legend says that her family goes back to Khan-Girey! In any case, your great-great-grandfather’s name was Suleiman! Very young, she married a Turkish citizen living in Crimea, Khalil Bekesh. (Your great-grandfather Khalil...) Soon after the birth of your grandmother Olya, the Soviet government repressed and shot many wealthy Crimean Tatars, and expelled the Turkish diaspora to Turkey, tearing apart families... So Khalil ended up in Ankara, and Tevide with his then little grandmother Olya remained in Crimea. What saved her from execution was that the Head of the Crimean Cheka (as the KGB was called then) fell in love with her and married her. (Aliev is his last name.)

He subsequently died in the War. But before that, he managed to send his family for evacuation to Azerbaijan - the city of Leninokan. And immediately after the war, repressions followed for allegedly numerous cases of cooperation with the Germans, Crimean Tatars were evicted from Crimea - some to the Kazakh steppes, some to Azerbaijan. There was nowhere to return and grandmother Olya went to go to college in Leningrad. She always studied brilliantly and graduated from school with a Gold Medal. This gave her the right to enter any institute without exams. She entered the Aviation Institute and studied there for a year. And then I broke my leg skiing, ended up in the hospital and fell in love with medicine for the rest of my life! Left aviation and moved to Medical! "Mockery Fate!"

Your great-grandmother Tevide Suleymanovna lived a long life, spoke and read Arabic well, wrote in Arabic script and generally knew many oriental languages. She knew the Koran by heart. She died on March 1, 1981 from a stroke. She was buried in a Muslim cemetery in Moscow.

Your great-grandfather Khalil never saw her again. But in 1961 he met his daughter-grandmother Olya. He found her through his Embassy and for a long time sought permission for her to go to Turkey for a date.

By that time he had a large family in Ankara and his own winery. He lived to a ripe old age and in 1972 was hit by a car (!). Buried in Ankara. His daughters and sons scattered around the world: one is a linguistic professor in New York, the other two are engineers in Sweden, and some remained in Turkey.

I’ll tell you separately about grandmother Olya’s second husband, Ivan Vasilyevich Dorba – it’s his cross you wear. His real name is Vladimir Vladimirovich Chebotarev, a descendant of Serbian nobles who moved to Russia under Catherine the Great. The revolution found him as a teenager, he emigrated to Yugoslavia, became a professional counterintelligence officer, fought against Soviet power, and was the head of counterintelligence of the White Guard People's Labor Union, headquartered in Paris. During the war, he went over to the side of the USSR and transmitted all the necessary information to Moscow. He came to Russia in 1947, he was given a new name and legend, and settled in that same apartment on Sadovo-Kudrinskaya. He became a writer and lived a long life. Read his autobiographical book “In the Pool of Truth.”

Kolpakchi

Your first relative who bore this surname was your grandfather Alexander Petrovich Kolpakchi.

He comes from Pavlograd (this is the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine).

His biological father disappeared before he was born. They say his last name was Skorokhod, he had a fleeting affair with a young 16-year-old Anya, one of the many sisters of the Bychkov family, who ran a tavern in this city. This girl was destined to become your great-grandmother Anna Nikiforovna Bychkova. The Civil War had just ended, Ukraine was still very turbulent, and your great-grandfather Skorokhod fled to Romania, where traces of him were lost. 16-year-old Anya with a child (later your grandfather) in her arms was left alone, but not for long. She was very beautiful, like all her sisters, and soon married a rather large military man, Peter Kolpakchi. He also adopted a child. They soon had a child together - your grandfather's half-sister - Lydia. In 1935, Anya left with both children for another, but did not formalize the divorce. But in vain! The ex-husband, General Kolpakchi, was arrested and shot in the year of the “Great Terror” - 1937. They immediately found his wife (she lived somewhere in Central Russia at that time) - your great-grandmother Anya, and as a registered wife of an “enemy of the people” they put her in camps, where she stayed for almost 20 years...

Upon arrest, children were to be sent to orphanages. But at the last moment, the Bychkov family finally found out about the situation and Anna Nikiforovna’s mother - your great-great-grandmother - came and took the children to Pavlograd in Ukraine.

Where they grew up. At the beginning of the war, Pavlograd was occupied by the Germans, the Germans were billeted and in the Bychkovs’ house. But they did not offend anyone and even fed the children. In 1943 the city was liberated Soviet troops and your 17-year-old grandfather volunteered for the army. He served in intelligence, constantly went behind the front line, and was wounded. He received the highest soldier's order for bravery - the Order of Glory. At the very end of the war he was seriously wounded, lost an eye and was demobilized. I went to Lvov and entered the Polytechnic Institute, where I met the beauty Svetlana Igorevna Kulakova, your grandmother Sveta.

Here's a couple... Students of Lviv Polytechnic, Sveta and Sasha.

Sveta, Svetlana Igorevna Kulakova - your grandmother Sveta - ended up in Lvov in a rather roundabout way. She was born in Kemerovo, Siberia. Her mother is your great-grandmother Zinaida Ivanovna Zabarko; dad (your great-grandfather) – Igor Kulakov.

Zinaida Ivanovna was born on October 23, 1899 in Omsk (Siberia) into a very prosperous family of an engineer: their own large house, servants, a private gymnasium... Several sisters, a brother.

Her mother - your great-great-grandmother was a purebred Polish woman, Maria Reshinskaya, a beauty, who died very early from tuberculosis (at 35 years old). The children were raised by their aunt (she is the first one on the right in the photo above).

Father - your great-great-grandfather - baptized gypsy Ivan Zabarko.

Zina (great-grandmother) married Igor Kulakov, a student at Omsk, early Polytechnic Institute. She herself studied to become a chemist.

The children came, the first-born Zorik died in infancy, then another boy appeared - Oleg and a year later, finally - Sveta (Sveta's grandmother). But the happiness did not last long, the hot gypsy blood took its toll and Zina left with two children and went to work in Sevastopol (Crimea). Also for work before the war, in 1940, he moved to Sverdlovsk - former Yekaterinburg, the city where the last Russian Tsar and his family were shot. She spent the entire war here, living in a civil marriage with an engineer.

At this time her ex-husband(your great-grandfather) wandered around the factories of the vast USSR, throughout the war he worked at military enterprises in large positions.

Got married, appeared common child(it turns out that he is Sveta’s grandmother’s half-brother). During the war, under bombing, this new wife and child disappeared! He's been looking for them all these years. Then he was told that they found themselves in occupied territory and disappeared. And then he remembered Zina. And he called her to Lvov, where his Motherland once again sent him.

“Let’s forget all the bad things, come, we have children!” And Zina went! Sveta’s grandmother kept remembering how that Zinin engineer ran along the platform and shouted: “Don’t leave, it’s a mistake!” And he was right: as soon as the family was finally reunited, the missing wife and child showed up. Indeed, they were driven to Germany and it took them a long time to make their way home. Zina had to take both children and leave again. She got a job in a chemical laboratory, Sveta and her brother Oleg entered the Lviv Polytechnic. Where we met War Hero Alexander Kolpakchi.

After their marriage, grandmother Sveta and Alexander Petrovich went to work for a short time in Zhdanov (Mariupol), and then returned to Lvov, where your grandfather received the position of director of a beer factory. Soon your mother was born there.

In 1959 the family moved to Sochi. Alexander Petrovich - director of the brewery, then - secretary of the City Committee in Sochi (a very large position at that time).

Happy childhood by the sea.

In June 1966, Alexander Petrovich was transferred to Moscow - to the Ministry of Food Industry.

There your mother graduated from the Institute of History and Archives and met me. And after 20 years of a hectic life together and wandering around the World, you were born in the city of Paris.

Scientific editor: Svetlana Petrovna Popova, Ph.D. honey. Sciences, Associate Professor, doctor of the highest category, teacher of the Department of Infectious Diseases with a course in epidemiology Russian University Friendship of Peoples (RUDN)

Official biography of Alexander Myasnikov

Alexander Leonidovich Myasnikov was born in 1953 in the city of Leningrad into a family of doctors. Medical dynasty The Myasnikov family dates back to the 19th century (there is a dynasty museum in the town of Krasny Kholm, Tver Region).

In 1976, Alexander Leonidovich graduated from the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. N.I. Pirogov. In 1976–1981 he completed residency and postgraduate studies at the Institute of Clinical Cardiology named after. A.L. Myasnikov, in 1981 he defended his Ph.D. thesis ahead of schedule. Soon he was sent to People's Republic Mozambique is a doctor of a group of geologists conducting exploration for deposits in remote areas of South Africa.

Due to the cessation of the group's work as a result of hostilities, he continued to work as a general practitioner in the Zambezi province in 1983. A year after returning home, Alexander Leonidovich was sent to Angola as a senior group of Soviet medical consultants at the Prenda government hospital, where he served until 1989.

Upon his return, Myasnikov combined work as a cardiologist at the All-Union Cardiology Research Center and as an employee of the medical department of the International Organization for Migration. In 1993–1996 he worked as a doctor at the Russian Embassy in France, collaborated with leading medical centers Paris.

Since 1996, he worked in the USA and confirmed his medical degree there. He completed his residency at the State University of New York Medical Center as a general practitioner. In 2000, the American Board of Medicine awarded Alexander Leonidovich the title of doctor of the highest category. Member of the American Medical Association and the American College of Physicians.

Since 2000, Myasnikov began working in Moscow, first as the chief physician of the American Medical Center, then as the chief physician of the American Clinic he founded. From 2009 to 2010, he was the chief physician of the Kremlin Hospital of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

From 2007 to 2012, Alexander Leonidovich hosted the program “Did you call the doctor?”, and since 2010, he hosted a medical column on the radio in V. Solovyov’s program “Vesti FM”. From 2010 to the present, Myasnikov is the chief physician of the Moscow City Clinical Hospital No. 71. Member of the Public Chamber of Moscow. Since 2013, he has been the host of the program “About the Most Important Thing with Doctor Myasnikov” on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.

Preface by the author

I dedicate this book to my mother - not only because she is my mother, but also because she instilled in me a love of medicine.

Our family is a dynasty of doctors. I don’t know how my great-grandfather came to medicine, but my grandfather in his youth really wanted to become a philologist. Yes, yes, that same famous grandfather - an academician, from whose textbooks more than one generation of Soviet and Russian doctors, whose name is also known abroad. At the insistence of his father, a zemstvo doctor, he went from his native Tver province to enter the medical faculty of Moscow University and... applied for philology!!! However, at the last moment he changed his mind (in other words, he was afraid of his father’s anger) and still went to medical school.

My father was a teenager during the war and, like a real Leningrader, he raved about the sea. He entered the naval school, but after he was demobilized from the third year for health reasons, he also entered medical school. (Unfortunately, his health never improved - he died at the age of only 45...)

My mother, a gold medalist, first entered the aviation institute, studied for a year and a half and... broke her leg! I ended up in the hospital with an open fracture and encountered the world of medicine. It was in the hospital that my mother realized that her calling was to be a doctor! I was cured, took the documents from the aviation office and took them to the medical institute (gold medalists were admitted without exams back then).

By that time the enrollment had already ended, so I had to go to the rector. The rector advised me to wait until next year. But my mother has always been a decisive person; she took a chair, sat down in the middle of the office and declared: “I won’t leave here anywhere until you accept me!” The rector just shook his head and said: “I love brave girls! But, look, only if there is at least one C grade...” Mom answered him: “There won’t even be a four!” Then I studied straight A's and worked selflessly in practical healthcare for many years.

I absorbed the love of medicine not even with my mother’s milk, but with her blood: after graduating from college, already pregnant with me, having an academician father-in-law, she agreed with the assignment and went to the village of Zaitsevo as a local doctor. Alone (her father still lived in Leningrad), pregnant, around the clock - childbirth, injuries, deaths, illnesses... Until now, my mother says that this practice has helped her throughout her long life in medicine.

WITH early childhood I didn’t have the question “who should I be?”, it was already implied. During my student years, I decided to gain practical experience and went on duty at the hospital to my mother’s department. I still remember the harsh (cruel!) reprimand that she gave me at the morning conference for what was, from my point of view, a small mistake!

From this period of my life I learned a lesson: there are no trifles in medicine: having become a doctor, you are no longer a person who can afford to get tired, who can be given allowances for family relationships. You are a doctor and you are responsible for people's lives, so you either work according to these principles, or you go home and change your profession!

Years have passed since then, and now I have my own professional experience behind me. It shows: many mistakes can be avoided, people’s lives and health can be saved if you tell them how the world of medicine works! If you explain what symptoms you should pay attention to and when to urgently seek medical help, and when you can wait and not worry; if you help them navigate the flow of advertising for medicines and medical services. If we help people understand the fact that there is no “magic” pill, that much of our health depends on ourselves.

Dear readers! This book is not a medical reference book or a self-medication guide! Remember that your doctor should always have the final say.

Dear Colleagues! When you read this book, please do not forget that it was written for non-professionals - people who do not have special medical education. Some things had to be simplified and shortened to make it easier for readers to understand.

Do not judge strictly!

I. Medicine in questions and answers

1. What do we expect from medicine?

2. What does medicine expect from us?

I am categorically against self-medication! I understand that people self-medicate not because they have a good life, but because medicine is either inaccessible or of poor quality. The patient needs health now, and he is not interested in explanations that for some reason something cannot be done.

If the patient does not receive adequate help, he will go to a shaman, a healer, a grandmother, an accessible doctor who is far from the ideal of literacy. The patient will watch TV, read a book, find information on the Internet and begin treatment. It is not right.

Why do I love treating foreigners? I tried to sneak away if I was called to see a Russian patient. All because our patient will pull the soul out of the doctor: how, why, why, and what? Americans are more loyal: they trust the doctor, but at the same time they are confident that if something goes wrong in the treatment, the lawyers will sort it out with the doctor.

The American patient reads about his problem and studies it. Of course, he asks the doctor questions. Doctors often don’t like such know-it-alls. But personally, it’s easier for me with such a patient: he will understand what I tell him about the need for treatment measures or examination. A person who is problem oriented makes contact easier.

A person must understand his condition in order to know how to behave in a given situation. By calling a doctor and an ambulance for any reason, we burden them with unnecessary work. At the same time, relying on the fact that the ailment will go away on its own, and, conversely, not turning to a doctor, people risk neglecting possible mortal danger. This is what my book will be about.

Here you can read more about the most frequently asked questions from patients and my answers to them. I tried to make the explanations as accessible and understandable as possible for you. I sincerely hope that this information will help you feel more confident in life!

1. What do we expect from medicine?

What do you think the average Russian expects from our medicine? His expectations are very simple: to receive high-quality medical care free of charge and on time.

Indeed, despite the fact that we live in this country and these conditions, we have the right to absolutely basic things. What if we call “ Ambulance“, then she arrives within a reasonable time and takes him to the hospital where the patient can receive the necessary assistance.

We have the right to expect that if a doctor prescribes a medicine, it will be at a minimum harmless, and at a maximum also help.

We hope that the doctor, when prescribing this or that drug, is guided not by concepts known to him alone, or even by material incentives, but by knowledge.

The patient expects that the doctor examining him will take into account all existing symptoms. That the cardiologist will not just measure the pressure and listen to the pulse, and the endocrinologist will not only feel the thyroid gland.

In a word, a person has the right to count on a competent medical examination, which consists of steps that must be followed - a certain algorithm. Unfortunately, in life everything often happens differently.

Sometimes you go to the doctor, and he doesn’t even examine you, but asks superficial questions and prescribes pills. The patient has the right to receive the entire necessary volume of instrumental and laboratory tests, and not to ask the doctor what he, the patient, still needs. Previously, doctors responded to many requests that the hospital did not have the necessary equipment, that “we don’t do this.” But many modern hospitals, at least in big cities, are equipped with everything necessary. The doctor is only required to follow a certain algorithm of actions.

But there is a serious problem here. In recent years, a huge amount of money has been spent on modernizing medicine, and a huge amount of expensive equipment has been purchased. We are proud to announce that we have already overtaken Switzerland in terms of the number of tomographs per capita, thereby showing the “lack of clothes on the naked king.” After all, the level of medicine in our country was still low!

The patient has the right to receive the entire necessary volume of instrumental and laboratory tests, and not to ask the doctor what he, the patient, still needs.

It’s not enough to buy and install equipment, you need to teach doctors how to use it. Abroad, a brain specialist is trained for seven years so that he can work on a tomograph, but here they get away with three-month courses! And there aren’t even enough emergency doctors.

We are keen on purchasing heavy and complex equipment; we install a tomograph in every hospital, without eliminating the huge queues for ultrasound or regular x-rays. But the saddest thing is the lack of “investment” in doctors. It is absolutely wrong to think that equipment can do everything.

The concept of “algorithm” has already been mentioned above. With the limited funds available for the development of medicine, we must determine priorities - where to spend this money first. They need to be invested in students, medical schools, doctors, who need to be taught an algorithm of actions and certain standards.

But not exactly the standards that you often hear about on TV, we are talking about medical and economic standards. That is, if a patient has inflammation of the lungs, then he should have an x-ray taken, a blood test taken, and an antibiotic prescribed. A medical-economic standard is a kind of scheme, a list of what should be included in an examination or treatment in very general terms. At the same time, the doctor is free to choose an antibiotic; he may or may not prescribe oxygen. He will be guided by his subjective feelings due to the lack of a clear algorithm of actions!

How does this happen in life? The patient has pneumonia. He is hospitalized and placed in a general ward for two to three weeks. Everyone in this ward is given the same antibiotic, IVs are given, vitamins are distributed... But it is not always necessary to hospitalize a patient with pneumonia; most cases are perfectly treated at home. For some symptoms, hospitalization is indicated, for others it is not. For some, one antibiotic is enough, for others, two or even three are needed. With some parameters, the patient can be placed in a regular ward, and with others, he can be placed directly in intensive care.

Remember the situation from the film “Two Soldiers”, when one of the heroes, having taken possession of a captured Mauser, boasts about how he shot from it. To which another hero asks: “How did you shoot a weapon when the most important part is missing?” “What is the most important part?” M. Bernes, who played Arkady Dzyubin, replied: “ main part any weapon has the head of its owner! And this is correct, because no matter what equipment is used, there is still a doctor behind it; he interprets the result obtained, decides on the need for research and what information these studies can provide.

All over the world, doctors are guided by clearly defined algorithms. A control x-ray is done not after two days, but at least after four weeks. Because residual effects can be visible for quite a long time, even if the pneumonia has already passed. It makes no sense to do an X-ray earlier, unless the patient is in intensive care, which is why it is called the “intensive observation ward.”

When I talk about standards, I mean exactly the algorithm of the doctor’s actions, and not the set of this medical and economic “business lunch”.

According to current standards, if a patient with a stroke is brought by an ambulance, he should not be examined by a doctor in the emergency department. The time factor is so important that the patient is immediately taken to a computed tomography scanner, bypassing all registration procedures, in order to determine whether he has thrombosis or bleeding. The reason is that the medicine that can dissolve the clot is only administered for a very short period of time.

Therefore, if the ambulance hesitates, if it tries to find out over the phone where to take this patient, if in the emergency room they ask for a long time who this old lady is and what her last name is, when she became ill, then that’s it - the patient can be lost!

The money that the state spends on medicine should go, first of all, to the proper training of doctors, so that we can receive qualified care free of charge and on time.

Today, in large cities, a doctor earns quite a lot of money. According to official data from the Moscow Department of Health, the average salary of a nurse is 46 thousand rubles; The average salary of a doctor is 78 thousand rubles. This money is comparable to what a European doctor receives in a hospital. And this is good!

The bad thing is that “from above” they demand to support high level salaries for everyone medical workers to avoid complaints. Doctors have no incentive to study. They are already accustomed to receiving, not earning. Therefore, it makes no sense to increase doctors’ salaries even more! Equalization leads to a certain indifference among doctors: “They’ll give it to us anyway! If not, we will write a complaint!”

You will say that every doctor must undergo recertification once every five years. Yes, only some undergo this procedure honestly, and some do it for money. But, even if a doctor wants to undergo recertification with high quality, he is taught using outdated manuals.

For example, our doctors are instructed to use drugs that have been used for more than 40 years. See for yourself: the once approved but still valid standards include the drug dibazol. My grandfather also used it.

One day one of the leaders of our state calls and says: “I don’t feel well, I want to drink papazole, can I?!” I wonder where he found this papazole?! I think they stopped producing it back in the 70s. But it turns out that it is not only produced, but also used! This is not a joke, this is the truth of life. Therefore, in order to send doctors for recertification, it is necessary to understand who, how and what will retrain them.

We need to start with medical schools. I have repeatedly said that the modernization of medicine will begin five years after we change the conditions for admission to medical universities and the teaching model in them. Five years will pass, completely different doctors will graduate from institutes, and only then will changes begin.

Universal recertification of doctors and strict examinations for knowledge of internationally recognized algorithms and standards of medical care are vitally necessary. Based on the exam results, I would determine the size of the salary and, in general, the right to work as a doctor. Those who successfully pass this “sieve” will be leading specialists with a decent salary.

Of course, most doctors will not immediately undergo such recertification. I would limit the retraining period to five years. Let uncertified doctors work, let them treat, but under the guidance and control of doctors who have passed recertification, and for a completely different salary, less than that of those doctors. Five years later - re-certification again; fail again - get out of the profession! This is the only way to save our medicine from non-professionals.

Medicine has no nationality. All people are built the same inside, and medicine is the same throughout globe. If your doctor is African and does the right thing, then you have nothing to worry about.

Individual licensing of doctors must be introduced. Then the doctor will be personally responsible to the patient and the insurance company. And one more thing: for centuries, doctors had their own language - Latin. Today it has been replaced by English, so any doctor must speak it, otherwise he will fall hopelessly behind!

I will answer those who have the habit of saying: “We’ve come in large numbers here!” I believe that medicine has no nationality. It doesn’t matter what nationality you are, what color your eyes and skin are, what accent you speak with; It's how you heal that matters. All people are built the same inside, and medicine is the same throughout the globe. If a Tajik, Ukrainian or African doctor comes to you, but does the right things, then you have nothing to worry about. But if a more conventional-looking doctor comes and says: “I have a special approach” (for example, Russian or Zimbabwean), then you need to look for another specialist!

In America, most doctors are Indians. Yes, they speak with an accent, but they are competent specialists who provide the most qualified and timely assistance!

In France, medical education is generally approached differently. My son is enrolling there now. There is no entrance exam to medical school. They accept everyone with the same results state exams. Everyone is given a chance to get medical specialty. But at the end of the first year, a very strict selection takes place.

According to statistics, only 9% of those initially admitted pass the second year of study. For example, the state needs 340 doctors. 3.5–4 thousand students are accepted. Each student has a certain score. Based on how he studies, takes exams and attends classes, this score changes: it rises or falls.

The process is monitored weekly. Based on the results of the year, the first 340 people are transferred to the second year. Everyone else remains “overboard.” After this, they can make only one attempt (and not all of them: poor students and outright quitters are expelled immediately). If they again did not hit 340, then more rights to medical education they don't have any at all.

I think that this is a correct and reasonable system that should be introduced here too.

2. What does medicine expect from us?

You probably think that now I will talk about giving up bad habits, the benefits of sports, etc. Yes, of course, I can’t do without it.

Look at many of our compatriots, what is happening to them?! The man is only 30 years old, but he already looks flabby, has a bulging belly, and won’t let a cigarette out of his mouth. The woman is not even 40 years old, but her figure is shapeless, her complexion is stale, and she smokes! They have never been to a doctor and have no idea about their blood pressure.

Naturally, doctors encourage a healthy lifestyle. People first age themselves prematurely, and then begin to heal themselves, relying on “knowledge” obtained from advertising.

Advertising medicines on television is a disgrace for the country! Actively advertised drugs are either pointless or literally harmful. Those that are harmful have long been banned from markets developed countries due to side effects. They successfully migrated to our territory and continue to exist. Among them are medications for allergies and weight loss, hepatoprotectors and immunostimulants. The most correct solution– do not buy advertised drugs! This is the only way to combat this phenomenon.

Many senior government officials agree. But they all say that a special law is needed, that the Duma should deal with this, and everything goes into continuous talk. The pharmacological lobby is much stronger. I’ll say it roughly, but essentially: “money” conquers everything.

Without disputing the importance of leading healthy image life, I want to say a little about something else. Today it so happens that a sufficient number of sane people have come to the leadership of the capital’s medicine. Many of them understand what needs to be done and how to do it. But they all face the same situation that I came across when I came to work at the city hospital. It quickly became clear that everything here, although somehow, was working. And if you pull a brick, the whole building will fall apart. If I fire someone I should, the hospital will shut down, since there will be no one on duty. If I change something, it will cause resistance from many segments of the population.

So what does medicine really want from us?

People come who are trying to change something in our medicine. For example, they are trying to reduce inpatient beds, the number of which is incredibly inflated. Many patients have nothing to do in hospitals! In other countries, there are two to three times fewer hospitals, and this is correct. Even after heart surgery, a person is discharged after five days, and he recovers at home.

People are already accustomed to going to a neurologist with chronic back pain, to a gastroenterologist with belching, etc. We distract specialists with trivial complaints. Understand that in order to change something, we must give up something ourselves.

A hospital is a kind of factory in which huge amounts of money are invested: complex equipment is installed; operating rooms and laboratories are equipped. Therefore, a hospital bed is literally “golden”. A person should stay on it for a maximum of three to four days and give way to another patient. The patient can complete his treatment at home or in a hospital of a different level, simpler, where there is no super equipment, but good conditions for rehabilitation, because he already needs care, not treatment.

Now they are trying to “unload” our clinics. There are crowds of people there, and normal person won't stand in line. It is necessary to create first-level clinics, where primary and chronic patients will go, and second-level clinics, for more complex patients requiring in-depth examination. A first-level clinic should have only the essentials. The second level is already well-equipped outpatient diagnostic centers with a full range of specialists.

But even this perfectly sound idea is met with resistance from the population. People are already accustomed to going to a neurologist with chronic back pain, to a gastroenterologist with belching, etc. We distract specialists with trivial complaints, and they steal bread from therapists and cut time for patients who really need specialized care.

Clearly, fundamental changes in healthcare are necessary, but they will not be painless. In the example with clinics, it turned out that simply dividing them into levels is not enough. This only added to the confusion and lengthened the lines.

It is necessary to create a dense network of primary medical offices with a staff of two to three doctors, four to six nurses, several medical registrars, and with equipment for drawing blood and taking an electrocardiogram.

I'll tell you one case. I was then running a private clinic. I pass by the register and hear phone conversation employee with a patient: “Which doctor do you want to see? Neuropathologist? Traumatologist? I couldn’t stand it and answered the phone myself. It turned out that the woman’s hand was sore and swollen, and she was literally wondering which specialist to go to. I ended up examining her myself and discovered deep vein thrombosis in the arm. And just in time: at any second the blood clot could break off and “shoot” into the lungs!

Moreover, deep vein thrombosis of the arm is often a manifestation of hidden oncology. This is exactly what happened to our patient, and only a timely diagnosis and surgery saved the woman’s life. If she had then gone to see a neurologist or traumatologist, would the correct diagnosis have been made? I’m not sure, because these specialists are focused on something completely different!

These offices should be within walking distance of everyone and have no queues. With their advent, it will turn out that X-rays and ultrasounds are not needed so often, that to renew a prescription for hypertension medication, you do not need to stand in line at a cardiologist, that blood can be tested here too - then it will be taken to the laboratory.

Understand: in order to change something, we must give up something ourselves. From bad habits, not only in the form of smoking, but also from the habit of lying in a hospital, “dragging” (oh, how we love IVs with pointless drugs!). A hospital is not a place for planned therapeutic hospitalizations! If the patient wants to “lie down and take a bath,” then he needs to contact the outpatient department. Many clinics have day hospitals, where various procedures in this area can be performed according to indications.

Many chronic diseases require regular use of medications. It should not be that the patient was not treated - he was not treated, and then he became impatient and went to the hospital on a drip. This is a bad practice. You need to take care of your health constantly, and not once every three years, when it becomes unbearable.

There are diseases for which medications must be taken regularly and for life. And when they ask me: “How is it, lifelong?” I answer: “You must take this pill in the morning.” own death" This is not cynicism, I just know and see how much harm the irregular use of drugs brings.

We need to get rid of bad habit Call a doctor at home for any reason. What can a doctor do at home besides hold your hand or give a soothing injection? Abroad, a doctor does not make house visits. Moreover, doctors do not work there or at the ambulance - only a paramedic team. If a paramedic arrives and finds a person unconscious, he immediately gives him an injection - a cocktail of drugs that can remove three to five reasons why the person is in this state. Breathing and pulse are restored, and then the patient is taken to the clinic.

Other treatment is useless here; the doctor on the spot cannot do anything. It is impossible to bring intensive care to every patient's home. It is more correct to bring the patient as quickly as possible to where he will receive full medical care.

Of course, there should also be a social service. An elderly grandmother who has difficulty walking should definitely be visited at home; see how she feels; measure pressure; check if she has pills; make sure she takes them correctly. But this should also be done not by a doctor, but by a patronage service.

Another story from life. One day I go to the pharmacy to get some drops. There is a queue, there is a grandmother who says: “Oh, I have blood pressure, girl, what should I take?” The pharmacist advises her something. I can’t resist and interject: “What are you doing? Let the doctor prescribe it, because this medicine will cure one thing and cripple another!” Then the line attacked me: “What do your doctors understand! Can you really wait for them!”

This book explains in which health situations you can wait and give yourself first aid, and when you need to see a doctor immediately. Minimum medical knowledge Everyone should know about their health.

Medicine wants one thing from us - help! She can't do it on her own! Any step towards reforming the healthcare system is accompanied by a social explosion and complaints from the population. The Ministry of Health can no longer do anything. The medical situation in our country is out of control, and this already concerns everyone. Let's work together to change the situation for the better. Once upon a time V.V. Putin said: “We are at the red line.” But, let's face it, we are not at the red line, we have been on it for a long time when it comes to the health and survival of the nation.

Medicine affects everyone, and we literally feel any changes with our skin! But it’s like a dirty and dried bandage on an old wound: tearing it off is both painful and scary! And you still need to change it: the infection is blazing with might and main, and what if, God forbid, gangrene begins?

I’m in America, sleeping, and then a phone call. I’m already used to it: it’s daytime in Moscow, but I can’t explain to some people about the time difference. I hear the voice of my good friend (there was a time - I even considered him a friend) and part-time major oligarch (Forbes and all that...). He says: “Sasha, for a relative who is now in New York, I urgently need a consultation with the best American neurologist.”

In the morning I make an appointment with a famous professor and make an appointment for the patient. From Moscow they answer: “What kind of reception? Let him come home to her.” But I must say that in America a doctor visiting a patient at home is an absolutely incredible thing. But I cannot refuse the person to whom I was obliged, so I ask the professor to make an exception, explain the peculiarities of the Russian mentality and promise to pay him in full for the working day. He reluctantly agrees, but with the condition - not earlier than next Saturday.

I call Moscow, and in response I hear: “What Saturday? We need it today!!!" To all the arguments that this is completely impossible, that the doctor is a famous professor and is very busy, I hear: “Sasha, we need to come to an agreement! Just don’t be sorry for my money!”

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He will tell you why hair falls out and what chronic drowsiness means. He will explain what bitterness in the mouth means and why homemade Dieffenbachia is dangerous. The best medicine, in his opinion, is love, but if a serious challenge occurs, he will put aside all business and conversations and take care of the difficult patient personally. After all, this is Alexander Leonidovich Myasnikov, a hereditary doctor, TV presenter, chief doctor of the oldest clinic in Moscow.

At the end of the 70s, at the Moscow City Clinical Hospital No. 71, the first brilliant operation in the USSR to engraft a patient’s finger was performed. Television did not fail to talk about such joyful event. Medical student Alexander Myasnikov was then a little over 20 years old, and he did not yet know that one day he would be invited with great respect to work both on TV and in the most legendary hospital.

From ancestors to present

In the ancient triangle between Yaroslavl, Moscow and St. Petersburg, not far from the capital Tver, lies the settlement of Krasny Kholm, small but colorful among its monasteries, two-hundred-year-old houses and meadows. Here, in 1859, the famous history of the Myasnikov family began, which is not even going to end. And this is a source of pride for Russia, because we are talking about a long family dynasty.

Alexander Ivanovich Myasnikov, a young merchant from Krasnokholminsk, was very happy when his wife Anastasia Sergeevna had a son, they named the boy Lenya. The merchant’s son did not continue the family business; he went to Moscow to study as a doctor. And Leonid Myasnikov was born in 1859, this year became the starting point for an unusual family.

Leonid Aleksandrovich studied well at the medical faculty of Moscow University, so brilliantly that the promising doctor was invited to stay at large clinic the famous G. A. Zakhoryin. But the young doctor refused the offer and returned to Red Hill. He gave all his talent and his life to his small homeland - he was a zemstvo doctor, ran a hospital for the poor, was elected mayor and mayor. He named his son Alexander, and this was the future Alexander Leonidovich Myasnikov himself, the father of Soviet cardiology.

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Much has already been written about academician Alexander Leonidovich Myasnikov. The most talented doctor, colonel of the medical service, was part of the group that observed I. Stalin in the last days of his life. All cardiologists and others know this biography; universities, associations, and streets are named by this name. But it is no less important that Academician Myasnikov also had a son, Lenya. Who also became a brilliant doctor. The Myasnikov family was already living in Leningrad by that time.

It was a fine day on September 15, 1953. Hereditary doctor Leonid Myasnikov excitedly hurried to his wife Olga. Olga is the young chief physician of a rural hospital, and today she and her husband gave birth to their first child. It was decided to name the boy Alexander, as was customary according to tradition. What will he be by profession?

Childhood, parents, grandfather

So the time has come for our Alexander Leonidovich Myasnikov, still the first-born of his parents. A year after the birth of the baby, the young family moved to Moscow. Here, for the first 6 years, the newlyweds built a new life, worked in medicine, and raised their son. After 6 years, unfortunately, the marriage broke up. Little Sasha stayed with his mother, but never broke off his relationship with his father. I went to see him on weekends and spent time with him. new family father and half-brother.

Today my father is no longer alive; he passed away very early - at the age of 45 from kidney cancer. But Alexander Leonidovich still remembers him warmly and keeps in his soul interesting stories related to his father’s life. However, Sasha, then still a boy, spent most of his time with his eminent grandfather Leonid. It was he who instilled in him the main masculine qualities and that incredible love of life that so distinguishes the Russian doctor Myasnikov.

Sanya spent his entire childhood with his grandfather, which today he calls happy, largely thanks to this beautiful, impeccable friendship. Grandfather always found time for his grandson. Together they relaxed in the summer at the dacha, had long conversations, and when Leonid Aleksandrovich was busy with a reception, Sasha always hid under the cabinet piano and absorbed the first medical phrases. This continued until November 1965, when the boy’s life changed dramatically.

It was a weekday, and Sasha and her mother arrived at her grandfather’s house on Slobodskaya to spend the upcoming warm weekend with him again, but the concierge at the entrance sadly said: “Alexander Leonidovich died today.” Alexander was 12 years old, and his childhood seemed to be over. Death loved one shocked the teenager so much that he could not hold back the blow. The boy wrote to his grandfather full of love a letter that my mother carefully placed in the funeral suit of the famous academician. I didn't go to the funeral.

Driver, traveler or doctor?

One should not think that the fate of Sasha Myasnikov was predetermined from birth by the power of the dynasty. The medical environment was familiar to the son, grandson and great-grandson of famous doctors, but he himself dreamed of something else. Sanya was drawn to travel, cars, and animals. A driver, geologist, trainer or livestock specialist, this is what the descendant of the Aesculapians dreamed of.

School years passed. Alexander studied well, but without fanaticism; he was a normal, curious teenager. I was preparing to implement one of my ideas in the future. And here the parents intervened in the fate of their offspring. The father, by that time already a professor of medicine, the author of several monographs, stated that his son would study only at the Medical School. Mom didn’t argue, although she always gave her son the right to choose.

With a sigh, Sasha obeyed and began to prepare to continue the family tradition. If he had known that this profession would more than make his dreams of cars and travel come true in the future, he would not have worried for a minute. However, there was no need to worry for long. Having freely entered the Moscow II Medical Institute named after Pirogov after 10th grade, the 18-year-old student realized that studying would be very interesting. And so it happened.

How fate meets

The obedient son vigorously plunged into student life - lectures, sessions, meetings with friends, get-togethers, violent fights, and being taken to the police. The eccentricity of the family and genes resulted in flowery rebellion. Alik, that was the name of our hero since childhood, like his eminent grandfather, from quiet boy turned into a dude with long hair and flared trousers.

Funky glasses, ostentatiously patched with wire, bright shirts bought from black marketeers, mismatched pants. And the Zhiguli, left over from the inheritance of the academician grandfather. Alexander Myasnikov felt like the golden youth of the city. He was active, narcissistic and loved women. It is not surprising that very quickly he acquired a young wife, whose name is hidden from history. That's how I graduated from college. Yes, I didn’t give up my studies, but I still knew my responsibility to my parents.

Student life gave way to the everyday life of an internship, which Alexander Leonidovich completed from 1976 to 1977. But if he began this period as a slacker dude, he ended his practice as a decently trimmed, neatly dressed young man with serious attitude to life. What's happened? The woman of my dreams has appeared. His beloved Natasha.

Half of the internship had already passed when Alex Myasnikov, as usual, together with his young, nameless wife, came to a party with his next friends. He came with one wife and left with another. And this time it was not a passing interest at all. A young graduate of the History and Archives Department, Natalya Aleksandrovna Kolpakchi, was not only Hollywood-style beautiful and liberated, but also possessed a deep, independent mind.

After talking with Alex all evening, she realized that she didn’t need anyone else. Five minutes later, her husband, a wealthy dentist, with whom she appeared at the party, was forgotten. And the shaggy, dark-eyed man, then an intern on a budget scholarship, became her only man for the rest of her life. Sasha completely changed his head, shocked by his beloved. By the end of 1977, he was officially free from his previous ties, and formalized his marriage to Natasha. Now forever.

How to go hiking

If it seems to someone that the descendant of dynastic doctors, the grandson of an academician, the son of a professor and a strong-willed successful mother was simply obliged not to need anything financially, then he is mistaken. Newlyweds Alexander and Natasha lived in a tiny one-room apartment on the income ceiling of the Soviet intelligentsia of 90 rubles and had no super-privileges. But Natalya was not from an ordinary family either; her father held high positions. But the time was different, Komsomol, and our newlyweds were intelligent to the core, and they simply could not imagine living on their parents’ necks.

According to the memoirs of Alexander Leonidovich, he and his wife were happy with what they had. But the spirit of wandering still remained in the hearts, and this required funds. We decided to try different variants. As a result, young Sasha, having a higher education, had the opportunity to:

• be bombed by a taxi driver in his Zhiguli;
• try your luck in military medicine, which my grandmother stopped through her connections;
• work as a senior laboratory assistant in a radionuclide laboratory.

At the same time, he completed his residency and postgraduate studies. And in 1981, the doctor defended his Ph.D. dissertation ahead of schedule. This is how the woman I loved changed my whole life. She inspired her husband to all his accomplishments, led him forward and upward, and soon inspired him to embark on the brightest adventure of his life called: a career in Africa.

Two in Africa, not counting the bullets

Alex Leonidovich doesn’t particularly like to remember this period today. Although everything started out great - the couple managed to be recruited under a contract for a geological expedition to Mozambique as part of Soviet scientists for a fabulous salary! Only on the flight to his place of life did Alik learn that there was a war going on in the country, and there was real shooting there. For a minute he doubted, but remembering his future earnings, he cast his doubts aside.

As it turned out, in vain. Africa greeted young people with hell - devastation, corpses, attacks, kidnappings, massacres. Colleagues died before our eyes, not just a simple death, but a terrible one. What are 5 worth? Swedish doctors, whom Alexander one day discovered beheaded. He and his wife had to learn to hold a gun, shoot, and be prepared to receive bad news every day. This went on for 2 years, until it was finally decided to relieve the group of heavy duties and transfer it to Zambezia.

The Namib Zambezi was a calm land. Here Alexander Leonidovich spent a quiet year as a general practitioner, helping the local population recover and receive treatment. The contract ended, the Myasnikovs returned to Moscow. But the love affair with Africa is not over.

The cardiologist's persistent behavior, organizational skills and will were noticed in high circles. When the government hospital Prenda in Angola, Africa, asked for personnel assistance, no one had any doubts about who to send to lead the group of consulting doctors. So Alex Leonidovich again found himself in troubled Africa. Now the work was going well, experience and hardening were telling. Therefore, the Myasnikovs stayed in Angola for 5 years. And the spouses were always together.

Preobrazhenka-Paris-New York

The almost 10-year African saga finally ended in 1989. Sasha and Natasha settled in their apartment in Moscow and began to lead the usual life of Soviet citizens. Leonidovich got a prestigious position as a cardiologist at the All-Union Cardio-Research Center, and simultaneously worked as a medical employee of the International Migration Organization.

But that was not the doctor's bright soul. Less than 4 years have passed since everyday life began to choke the grandson of the famous academician. And in this he was very much like his grandfather - he also passionately loved life, movement, novelty and beauty of the world. Alex got ready to hit the road again. This time, fate offered him romantic France; the Embassy of the then Russian Federation in Paris needed a doctor.

Paris greeted me very cordially. The doctor, who had already seen a lot, and his beloved wife, who was always nearby, plunged into an atmosphere of peace, beauty and civilization.

Alex Leonidovich did not limit himself to official duties, he actively got acquainted with leading Western practitioners, and came into contact with French colleagues from leading clinics. During his three years in Paris, 1993-1996, he worked with many medical centers in France, established connections and saw how far medicine had advanced outside his homeland.

At the end of the contract, it was decided to expand their financial and professional opportunities and go to America, rich in medicine and technology, without even visiting Moscow. Study innovations and earn money for your own clinic. By that time, Alexander Myasnikov had already lived for 43 years, but there was a new life ahead again from scratch. However, this time the couple did not have to travel alone. In Paris, the city of love and fulfillment of desires, like a miracle, their son was born. According to tradition, the boy was named Lenya.

Birth of a son and daughter

If you trace today the turbulent life of the famous TV presenter “About the Most Important Thing” from his youth, it will become clear why the spouses’ plans for children did not come forward for so long. The marriage began immediately in Africa, where malaria, infections and bullets reigned. But these are vaccinations, stress, unchildish conditions. Was it possible to expose the bodies of mother and child to such danger?

When the African period ended, the couple came to their senses in Moscow and settled down. The 90s were beginning, and only criminal elements and traders could settle down properly; Alex Myasnikov Jr. was neither one nor the other. But he was a perfectionist and a responsible person, and he could not imagine how to bring a child into less than favorable conditions.

Years followed the experiences, so when the small family found themselves in Paris, where, it would seem, everything coincided, Alex and Natalya were already 40 years old. Of course, no one thought much about children anymore. However, the sky decreed differently.

Was a certified doctor with 20 years of experience happy at the news from his 40-year-old wife who had never given birth that they would have a child? Of course not. Moreover, my wife’s health problems are serious. The husband began to insist on interruption, like a doctor. But he underestimated the femininity of his stoic half.

In the photo Alexander Myasnikov with his son

Natalya flatly refused to obey her husband, for which he is now constantly grateful to her. After all, today Leonid, who was born in Paris in 1994, is 24 years old. He is the pride and happiness of his parents, and most importantly, he is an honest successor to the dynasty, the dynasty of the Myasnikov doctors.

Lenya, named after his grandfather, studies in France; it remains his second home. First, the young man plans to master pharmaceuticals, and then to become deeply involved in the medical profession. The young man speaks several languages. He inherited his father's determination and mother's wisdom. Alexander Leonidovich loves his son madly and does not deny him anything, spends all his time with him free time. However, there is no talk of blind spoiling. The boy grew up under a good Soviet upbringing, where humanity, decency and strong will were always the main ones.

The daughter of Alexander Myasnikov is Polina. Photo https://www.instagram.com/alexander_myasnikov1/

Dr. Myasnikov has another child. A talented 13-year-old girl Polina, born 10 years after Leni. Polya draws, writes fairy tales herself, one small edition of her works has already been published (2018). The famous dad is proud of his daughter and helps her by any means necessary. But the girl lives separately, because her mother is not Natalya Alexandrovna. And this is a completely different story.

America, America

Arriving in the United States, cardiologist Alex Myasnikov Jr. was forced to re-prove that his diploma was related to medicine - in America only its own universities recognize it. But nothing is impossible for a talented person. Without any hindrance, the Russian doctor completed an American residency at the New York State University Medical Center, received a new general practitioner certificate from American medical systems, and later highest category in 2000.

All this time, Alexander Leonidovich had to work non-stop in 36-hour shifts, which is 80-90 hours a week. At home they could only sleep, and then go back to battle, cultivating the fields of American medicine. Natasha and her little son were left completely alone, in an unfamiliar country, without a serious business and without a husband who disappeared for days in clinics.

It’s hard to imagine what Natalya Alexandrovna was going through in her solitude as a woman, but after a few years of such ordeals, trouble befell her and she desperately decided to take alcohol into her soul. Is it for this reason or because Myasnikov the doctor began to understand that American system labor consumes his time and life, in 2000 he decides to return to his homeland.

The homeland greeted the doctor well. His American titles - Member of the American Medical Association and the Medical College of Physicians, as well as invaluable experience allowed him to take on the responsible management of the American Medical Center in Moscow. Alexander later left this position and moved to manage his own American clinic. By a lucky coincidence, the office of the Administration of the President of Russia worked in the same building.

Managers noticed the active, charismatic chief doctor and offered him a job under the Kremlin. Thus, at the age of 56, Alexander Myasnikov became the chief physician of the Kremlin hospital of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. However, all this no longer made Natalya happy. The faithful companion is seriously stuck in trouble, and darkness hangs over the couple's family. It was at this moment that Sasha allowed himself to become weak under the weight of discord. As a result, today he has illegitimate daughter Polya, born in 2005.

But Natasha still coped with the trouble, and completely on her own. It took 10 years, but now Doctor Myasnikov’s wife is not friendly with strong drink. Natural wisdom helped her throw away the darkness. And also - to forgive your husband for his mistakes and accept new circumstances with intelligence and dignity.

Recent history

Alex Myasnikov Jr. worked under the Kremlin for only a year. According to the doctor, he still doesn’t understand how this happened. But in 2010 he decided to return to more folk medicine- headed Moscow Hospital No. 71, where he still successfully leads.

There is more than enough work in the hospital, dozens of patients every day. And among the cases there are real horrors. What is the value of the young girl Margarita Gracheva, who was admitted at the end of 2017? The husband completely cut off the girl's hands after she announced that she wanted to file for divorce.

A team of microsurgeons worked for 8 hours to re-shape the victim’s left arm from the amputee found at the crime scene by operatives. Right hand She was also in serious condition, there was no way to restore her, her hand was completely crushed. But we managed to save the hand from infection and give it a cosmetic appearance. On the doctor’s Instagram you can find photo reports on this and other incredible stories, where the clinic’s doctors show the highest professionalism in saving people.

This is not all that the chief physician of MGKB-73 does today. In 2012, the charming, cinematic doctor was invited to try himself on television. Since then, All-Russian fame has come to Alexander Leonidovich Myasnikov. Self-confident, calm, courageous, inspiring unconditional trust, he won the hearts of all sufferers seeking answers to questions about their health.

At first it was the program “Tell me, Doctor!”, Raz-TV. Then the famous “About the most important thing”, Russia-1. Doctor Myasnikov continues to lead it to this day. There are also more rare projects, for example, the TV presenter of “Did you call the doctor?”, TVC. He also actively conducts a medical column with his friend Vladimir Solovyov on the radio “Full Contact”. And she often looks at his TV show.

Mother of Alexander Myasnikov and Vladimir Solovyov. Photo instagram.com/alexander_myasnikov1

Today, the people's doctor is happy with his job, family, children, his personal life has completely improved, he idolizes his wife, he has a country house and new hobbies. On September 15, 2018, he turned exactly 65 years old, but a 20-year-old would envy the activity of the “pensioner.” Doctor Myasnikov is successful in everything, and we can only be in complete admiration and re-read interesting facts about him in order to take an example for our own lives.

The following facts did not fit into the biography of the Russian genius:

1. On 06.2017, the doctor received the title of Honored Doctor of Moscow.
2. Today, Doctor M.'s height and weight are 180 cm and 85 kg. For a long time I struggled with excess weight and am now in great shape.
3. He remained forever true to his passion for travel. I have already traveled half the world and almost all of Russia, for work and on my own initiative.
4. He loves hunting in the Siberian forests, but prefers to remain an amateur.
5. He runs his own website, where he posts information about himself and his work, articles, notes, reflections. There is a detailed pedigree of the Myasnikov family.
6. He wrote about 17 books on medicine and health, 3 of them in posthumous co-authorship with his grandfather.
7. He does boxing three times a week, bench presses 140, sitting 180 kg. He regularly visits the shooting range, where he practices shooting.
8. Olga Khalilovna, the mother of the famous presenter, half Crimean Tatar and half Turkish by origin, is still in good health. In the spring of 2018, she turned 91 years old.
9. The doctor has 3 dogs in the house - a shepherd dog Eugene, an Alabai Gina, a St. Bernard Hamlet and a ginger cat Aramis of the May-Coon breed.
10. On April 4, 2018, he made his first flight in a mini-helicopter, and by the time of his anniversary, he had fully learned to fly aircraft of this type.
11. He doesn’t consider it shameful to take care of his appearance with the help of plastic surgeons; he had corrective facial plastic surgery (removed wrinkles).
12. Not a stickler for prohibitions, like a doctor, he insists that everything is possible, but in moderation. But he is an opponent of most of modern chemical drugs.

And finally, Dr. Myasnikov believes that one should never regret the past or the mistakes made. But you always need to draw wise conclusions from them and think only positively when looking into the future.

June 03, 2016 No comments

Anyone who loves the TV show “Did They Call the Doctor?” (which is shown on TVC) without a doubt, they are worried: how is Dr. Myasnikov Alexander Leonidovich - his family, children and wife. This original person has achieved significant heights in the medical field. It is interesting that in Myasnikov’s family, in the previous two generations, men were also doctors - he decided to continue this tradition.

On this moment Alexander Leonidovich works as the head physician at the Kremlin clinic. Over many years of practice, he visited many countries (including the USA), visited several hot spots. During this time, he has helped and continues to help thousands of people. Now Alexander Leonidovich appears on television and shares invaluable advice with everyone who wants to improve their health.

The wife of the doctor Alexander Myasnikov - who is she, how did they meet, how long have they existed family union? Unfortunately, there are not as many answers to these questions as fans of doctor Myasnikov would like. They say that the famous doctor tied his family ties about 32 years ago, and he met future wife at one of the receptions. At the same time, he came to him with his first wife, and his current wife with her fiancé. This meeting turned their lives around, and since then they have never been apart for long. The new wife accompanied Alexander Leonidovich on his travels and helped him in every possible way in his work.

It is not surprising that fans are interested in personal relationships, the wife and children of Alexander Myasnikov. Note that he has a son, Leonid. If you believe widespread rumors and many different publications, Leonid is ready to continue family tradition, and will also devote his life to medicine. He confirms his intentions by diligently studying at school, as well as his love for medical sciences.