K thought about it for a while, whistling slightly, not w his lips but through his clenched teeth, letting air out through them. "Well it's hard to work out which is worse off, it's even harder than competing over achievement. One's own troubles are always the worst." #CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
But the patient's organism isn't aware that our knowledge is divided into separate branches. You see, the organism isn't divided. As Voltaire said, "Drs prescribe medicines about which they know little for an organism about which they know less." #CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
They talked as friends when they met at a scientific conference. Yet confessing to being ill was like having confessed to a crime: immediately they had lost the key to the equality they had once possessed. #CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
"It makes no difference if you had 10 proletarian grandfathers, if you're not a worker yourself you're no proletarian,"boomed K. "He's not a proletarian, he's a son of a bitch. The only thing (Rusanov) is after is a pension, I heard him say so himself."
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She was utterly crushed now. No longer Dyomka's senior by a full year in school, she lost her advantage of extra experience, her knowledge of life & the 3 journeys she had made. She seemed to Dyomka almost like a part of him. He was very pleased to see her.
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He was observing this patient w the shaggy black hair. The main thing he noticed was his scar. It was an interesting scar; he could imagine it freshly cut, like a case recently brought to him in the surgical ward. He wondered what would have had to be done.
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Vadim had a throbbing sense of loneliness...These hopes & despairs beat so insistently in his headthat he found it was no longer fully grasping what he read. He would read a whole page & then realized that he hadn't understood it.
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Chaga tea is made from the chagamushroom, which typically grows on the trunks of birch trees in the Northern Hemisphere. Substances present in chaga may effectively prevent cancer & slow tumor growth. It inhibited growth & promoted the death of colon cancer cells. WebMD. #CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
On Vadim's windowsill stood a jar containing a dark brown infusion of chaga. The other patients used to come up & look at it curiously.
Are you drinking it?
Yes, I am.
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"He has to know everything doesn't he?said Vera Kornilyevna, shaking her head from side to side. These days our patients are so educated, we'll be handing them over our white coats soon."
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I found symbolically relevant aspects of #CancerWard to our current scenario. #Solzhenitsyn25 showed compassion in his characters that is lacking in our own but then marvelously warm and empathetic characters, too.
His way of exploring how people react to tragedy & frustration is remarkable.
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Of course doctors must carry greater responsibility, but at the same time their patient quota ought to be lowered by 2 or 3 times. Look at outpatients: 9 an hour! Isn't it appalling? Give us a chance to talk to each patient in peace & quiet, & to think in peace & quiet.
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Every Tuesday and every Friday we surgeons take enormous risks, we walk into minefields. Our work is entirely based on trust. A mother ought to entrust her child to us, not stand up as a witness against us in a courtroom.
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Silk thread was commonly used as a non-absorbable surgical suture material in cancer operations and other surgeries during the 1950s. It was a standard material alongside catgut, linen, & cotton before the widespread adoption of synthetic sutures.
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There were times when the pressure of it all got Lev Leonidovich down & he felt he couldn't carry on another day. All he wanted to do was to break w the clinic & go somewhere else. But where could he go? Any new place would have its own senior dr who might be worse..."
#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
"...You'll be clutching at it next year, even though it's not there. But when it hurts you, try to remember: it's not there! It'll make you feel better. The most important thing is ur going to live now, see? As for your leg__to hell w it!"
#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
When he'd seen the moon this morning, he'd had faith! But that moon had been on the wane ...
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How he would have loved to get through to these thick skulls and see his bit of justice, a tiny, miserable bit but nevertheless justice, So long as he was fighting for it, he would feel like_a human being.
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Well, how did it go? Are you better? Oleg was genuinely moved; there was even a tightness in his throat. How little was needed. But a few humane men behind these vile desks and life became completely different.
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Kostoglotov would never permit himself to smile at bis jailers even if they smiled at him. He considered it his duty to remind them that he remembered everything.
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He couldn`t go to Zoya's. He couldn't go to Vega's.
Or rather, he could, he could And she'd be pleased. She'd never show how disappointed she'd been. But it was a question of "mustn't" rather than "couldn't."
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
He felt embarrassed and depressed. If he was going to see her the time to go was now, now! But...he couldn't. He. .. he had lost the impulse. He . . . he was afraid. They were separated by this department store...
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Whole months, years of life could not compare with today, this one supreme day.
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Oleg had learned a lesson.This was his reward for not hurrying.The lesson was never rush on without looking around first.He walked up to the railings & from on high gazed and gazed through this pink miracle. It was his present to himself-his creation-day present.
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None of the passersby was particularly pleased to see Olegbut he was happy to see them all.He was delighted tohave come back tothem,to everything there was in the streets.He could find nothing inthis newly made world of his thatwas uninteresting,unpleasant or ugly #Solzhenitsyn25
These truck drivers were just having a snack, fifteen roubles apiece, and very likely this wasn't their main breakfast either. No wage was enough to support such a life. Wage earners didn't buy shashlik.
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Oleg had learned a lesson.This was his reward for not hurrying.The lesson was never rush on without looking around first.He walked up to the railings & from on high gazed and gazed through this pink miracle. It was his present to himself-his creation-day present.
#Solzhenitsyn25
It was the morning of creation. The world had been created anew for one reason only to be given back to Oleg. "Go out and live!" it seemed to say.
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