If I had been asked what subject to add to Polish students I would have just suggested "civil defense."
Well, no. A lot has happened and it would take a long time to tell the story. How to measure these thousands of saved human lives? Last year alone, more than 2,000 hematopoietic cell transplants were performed in Poland and there is already a city of people saved by this method. And it just...
During a demonstration in support of the Palestinian cause, a citizen of the Kingdom of Norway carried a poster targeting the State of Israel. As luck would have it, this Citizen of the Kingdom of Norway is in Poland as a student at the Warsaw Medical University (as are many of her compatriots)....
At the time of the Warsaw Uprising, hematology had not yet been fully recognized as a separate medical specialty, but it was already in the minds of the people who developed it and whose talents I later rubbed should be remembered, since they are no longer alive.
I have no family references to what happened 80 years ago in Ukraine. My Parents spent the war in captivity in Germany, my closest relatives in Siberia and then in the Anders Army. But a book recently fell into my hands, "Notes from Volhynia," by Prof. Henryk Kirschner, MD, professor emeritus of...
An acquaintance (incidentally, a former deputy minister of health) once told me a story from his postgraduate internship in obstetrics. Lo and behold, the orderly telephoned him and invited him to the delivery room: "come on Sir, a unique case, an old primary, 28 years old!". As we know, there...
A few years ago, a friend invited me to visit the famous Karolinska Institutet Hospital in Stockholm (that's the one where the Nobel Prize is awarded). The Swedish hospital was by then much more computerized than the Polish hospital where I work, but the experience was instructive. Well, just at...
The radio station, which probably considers itself the most progressive, has published a documentary series that stigmatizes medical experiments, although there is also a caveat in the "small print" that not all of them are still being performed in accordance with what the author of the series...
Recently, we were reminded by doctors that our profession is also a mission. Basically, a mission to save people. And it was contrasted with the pursuit of making money. Well, there is no such contradiction. A doctor with a "mission" cannot just walk into any hospital and help the sick free of...
I read recently that a son saved his father's life in Kiev. No, not in the midst of hostilities, but as a bone marrow donor. My father developed severe aplastic anemia (a disease in which the marrow does not produce blood cells). It is a potentially fatal disease that is treated with bone marrow...
I am a graduate of the Military Medical Academy in Łódź, a university that ceased to exist. However, I will not write about how it was liquidated, but about how it was created.
I was recently among the winners of the Ig Nobel Prize awarded at Harvard University, awards for research papers that first make you laugh and then make you think . The work was invented and performed by my younger colleagues, and my role was mainly boiled down to the fact that when they came to...
There used to be such billboards in Poland, "I am knitting myself". They showed a criminal getting a tattoo. I don't remember what it was about anymore, at least it wasn't a campaign against tattooing. Besides, tattooing in prison had a specific informative purpose (defining a place in the prison...
A dozen or so years ago, an extremely energetic brunette, probably a fifth-year student of the Medical Faculty of the Medical University of Warsaw, Ania Waszczuk, came to my office with a declaration that she intends to work in a hematology research club. Her extraordinary intelligence was...
Some time ago, the validity of covid certificates was reduced to 270 days. The undersigned received the third dose on October 11, 2021, i.e. more than 270 days ago, and his certificate is therefore invalid by law. The undersigned works full-time (and even more so) in constant contact with dozens...
Many years ago, when as a young doctor I was living in the hospital dormitory, instead of giving me the key to my room, she said that some short and fat friend came to me, so she gave him the key. I was going to the room wondering who he might be talking about, because I didn't have any such...
The discussion about educating doctors in Poland ranges from the postulates of "practicing studies" to the elimination of the basic method of practical apprenticeship, ie postgraduate internship.
A colleague asked me if we should boycott Russian doctors, just like we boycott, for example, athletes? I replied no. Why not?
It cannot be ruled out, as Russia undoubtedly has these "toys". If it starts losing decisively in the conventional war, it has gone so far that it will be difficult for it to withdraw from the war after suffering defeat. The use of tactical nuclear weapons is nothing unimaginable for Russian...
A few years ago, at the time of the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, when the war between Serbia and Croatia was going on, our Croatian friend, professor Boris Labar, a pioneer of bone marrow transplantation, was almost crying in Yugoslavia. He said, "we are making such a gigantic effort to...
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