Sergey Sukhanov: heart on the palm

At the heart of every process should spark a spark - human thought, initiative, talent. If a spark can produce a flame, then there is light. Such a light, indicating the path that gave life and forever preserved in the memory of millions of people, was a man of unique power and unlimited possibilities, Sukhanov Sergey Germanovich. The death of a great cardiac surgeon who invested in the dry science of fine medicine the artist's subtle soul, not only shocked the world - she hit the heart, and this is not a metaphor.

The beginning of the way

Born in 1953, Sergey Sukhanov almost dreamed of an artistic career until his graduation, until he unexpectedly and clearly changed his life plans, having set himself a completely definite goal - to become a professor of cardiosurgery. To achieve his, as he understood yet as a schoolboy, the main destiny of a great master was able in forty years. Before that, thousands of human lives had already been drawn by his hands.

Brilliantly finished in 1976, the Perm State Medical Institute opened a young specialist to the road to great medicine. Under the guidance of Academician Eugene Wagner, the future associate professor and professor, and then still a simple graduate student, Sergei Sukhanov, was not afraid to take the initiative in organizing a new vascular department at the Perm regional hospital.

The beginning of a new era

During this period, at the end of the seventies, the beginning of a new era of cardiovascular surgery marks the beginning of the name of a little-known but promising doctor. It will take us years before the 20 beds of the modest hospital department grow into a powerful and first-class clinic, but the birth of Wagner's great and bold idea from the distant fifties has already found its successor.

In 1983, Sergei Sukhanov defended his Ph.D., and ten years later, his doctoral dissertation. A little more time passes, and the dream of a Permian schoolboy becomes a reality - Professor of the PGMA. Academician E. A. Wagner. S. Sukhanov confirms the well-known principle that if there is a desire, then there will be time for its implementation.

The first among the first

He does not stop studying, despite the fact that his practice reaches a scale that is still considered unattainable. Endless closed operations on the myocardium, testing of new methods, drawn from the huge practice of Swiss colleagues - all this leads to the fact that in November 1995 a world event took place in Perm - surgical intervention on the open myocardium under the supervision of Israeli professor Aram Smolinsky with the help of S. Sukhanov.

That memorable operation lays a new cornerstone in the development of a new cardiovascular surgeon by the Russian, the most complicated method of saving human lives. The stage of independent operations of such a plan begins and a rapid, unprecedented success - after only 17 years in only Perm Territory, 25,000 operations were performed on the open myocardium. By this time the fame of the institute in Perm has already spread far beyond the borders of the Russian Federation, the name Sergei Sukhanov becomes a household name in the world of medicine.

Being the most often practicing surgeon in Russia, a doctor with a world name also leads the life of an active politician. As a confidant of President V. Putin, he takes over the leadership of the regional headquarters of voters and brings the number of those who voted for Putin to a record level of 70%, which is twice the previous figures of the people's loyalty to the current government.

End of the way

Sergei Sukhanov, whose cause of death is publicized as an oncological disease, died at the age of 62. The surgeon, a thousand times awakening the beating of human life, worked, trained and did not cease to endlessly study until his death. The event on July 24, 2015, the stirring up world of the not indifferent, was named the end of the innovative era of Sukhanov - a human doctor, a human artist, a man holding his heart in the palm of his hand.