the use of bcg as per uspto.gov inventor search faustman, faustmanlab.org, pubmed.org faustman dl, pubme.org. ristori + bcg
bcg is cheap and the effects are soectacular
subvert the practice of murder by medicine in the us by taking what is good snd uding it to make easy money and fo goof. whst an evil concept.
not that putin will also supply you with the medical revords of lroinid brexhnev eho was treated for trigemingal neuralgia using the methodofology of my friend eugene j ratner, see also the lancet p106 jan 14 1978 describing the cause and treatment of causalgia in boston
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In Russia’s Provinces, the Doctor Is in (the Streets)
OKULOVKA, Russia — With his mop of white hair and soft surgeon’s hands, Dr. Yuri I. Korovin hardly fits the image of the typical Russian street protester.
But spurred into action by his tiny and shrinking paycheck, Dr. Korovin recently joined colleagues in a strike organized by a newly formed doctors’ union affiliated with Russia’s main opposition politician, Aleksei A. Navalny.
“It’s not good to make money off the sick,” he said wryly in the hospital in Okulovka, a town of about 12,000 people north of Moscow. But, like many other doctors in Russia, he would like to make more.
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The strike and street protests by doctors and ambulance medics here were among dozens of labor actions that broke out this spring in Russia over bread-and-butter issues like garbage disposal, poor roads, corrupt local officials and the quality of medical care.
The medical workers’ union, called the Alliance of Doctors, has opened branches in 20 regions of Russia since it formed last summer and has staged about a dozen protests nationwide since then.
For now, few expect the protests to change much, as President Vladimir V. Putin remains broadly popular. But the brush fires of provincial discontent highlight the disconnect between Russia’s chest-thumping rise abroad and its stagnating economy at home. After five years of declining wages, adjusted for inflation, Russians are taking notice.
Russia ranks 73rd in the world in per capita gross domestic product, between the Seychelles and Greece. In one measure of the hard times for many, Russia’s state statistics agency this year released a surveyshowing that about a third of Russians could not afford a spare pair of shoes for the winter. An additional 21 percent said they could not afford to buy fresh fruit regularly.
“A very natural thing is happening,” Ekaterina Schulmann, a political scientist at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, said in a phone interview. “The worsening economy, the declining real wages, is souring public opinion.”
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Just two hours from Moscow by train, Okulovka might just as well come from a different century. As the town sinks slowly into the swampy ground on which it was built, wooden houses lean at odd angles on their sagging foundations, water pools in the roads, and wind blows through the broken windows of a partly abandoned paper mill.
About a third of those houses have no indoor plumbing, the authorities in the surrounding Novgorod region say. Life expectancy in the region, 64 years for men, is the third-lowest in Russia.
One issue gaining traction in particular is the impoverishment of doctors in rural Russia. After a medical procedure, it is more often the doctor than the patient who winds up with sticker shock — not because the payments are so outrageous, but because they are so small.
Dr. Korovin, who is paid about $8,670 a year and extra for after-hours operations, recently treated a man with a stab wound to his lower abdomen.
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“The guys were drinking, they were relaxing somewhere and, well, this happened,” he said with a shrug.
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For that hour-and-a-half, after-hours operation, the hospital, which is funded by Russia’s state-run insurance program, paid Dr. Korovin 500 rubles, or $7.70.
In their strike, doctors and nurses demanded that the local authorities fulfill a decree signed by Mr. Putin that doctors be paid twice the average salary of the region where they work. Double the average annual salary in the Novgorod region would be 744,000 rubles, or $11,448, well above Dr. Korovin’s salary.
For a physician in the United States, the average salary last year was $313,000, according to a report by Medscape, a publication for doctors.
“I voted for Putin; we all voted for Putin,” said Dr. Korovin, the only remaining surgeon in town. But his salary, never much to brag about, has gone down, he said. “I never thought I would have to protest.”
Local officials say there is simply no money to comply with the decree. Regional governments compensate hospitals according to fee schedules. In Novgorod, these are tiny: for example, $12 for a consultation with a cardiologist and $8 for a consultation with an urologist, according to a spreadsheet provided by the regional government.
But expressing dissent over this state of affairs is dangerous, even far from the capital.
Just a few stops up the railway line from Okulovka, in the same belt of economically depressed provincial towns in northwestern Russia, a court fined an unemployed man, Yuri D. Kartyzhev, $470 for an online post calling Mr. Putin an obscene form of the Russian word for dimwit, under a new law prohibiting insults to state symbols or officials.
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“I’m not the only one upset,” he said in an interview in his kitchen overlooking a tableau of mud and collapsed wooden sheds in his back yard. In the interview, he was careful to avoid most obscenities, now a prosecutable offense, but said he had not changed his views.
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