The devil is in the details... Pavel Novitsky Why details are so important

"God is in the details", but also: "The devil is in the details". Both expressions seem very old. When did they appear and who was here before - God or the devil?

There used to be a God, although "earlier" does not mean "very long ago". The expression "God is in the details" was created in the 20th century. It appeared in print no later than 1937, with reference to the German historian and art theorist Abi Warburg.
Abi Warburg (born Abraham Moritz) (1866–1929) spent much of his life studying Italian Renaissance. Nearly 30 years after Warburg's death, his closest collaborator, Gertrude Bing, quoted words he once wrote about himself on his favorite Italian: "Ebreo di sangue, Amburghese di cuore, d'anima Fiorentino" - "Jew by blood, Hamburger by heart, Florentine by soul."
From 1925, Warburg led a seminar on Italian art at the University of Hamburg. It was dominated by an interdisciplinary approach that involved the study contemporary artist rituals, symbols, language, philosophy, and even the natural sciences. According to Ernst Gombrich, a student of Warburg, the motto of the seminar was:

Der liebe Gott stackt im Detail.
(God is in the details.)

The French version is better known: "Le bon Dieu est dans les détails" - "God is in the details." The German art historian Erwin Panofsky attributed these words to Gustave Flaubert without any reason (in his book The Meaning and Interpretation of visual arts", 1955).
In 1922, three years before Warburg's first seminar, Boris Pasternak's 1917 poem Let's Drop Words was published. It ended with the lines:

You ask who is in charge?
- Almighty god of details,
Almighty god of love
Yagailov and Jadwig.

I don't know if it's solved
The mystery of the afterlife,
But life is like silence
Autumn - detailed.

Of course, Pasternak's "god of details" is not the same as Warburg's "God is in the details".

A distant prototype of Warburg's motto can, perhaps, be considered the statement of Pliny the Elder: Natural history”, XI, 2, 4).

Such is the case with "God is in the details"; what about the devil? The expression "The devil (lurks) in the details" (German: "Der Teufel steckt im Detail") has been in widespread use since the 1960s.

The adage "God is in the details" is most often found in works on the history and theory of art, when they want to emphasize the importance of studying the totality of facts. The meaning of the "Devil is in the Details" formula is different: something that looks good at first glance may turn out to be not so good upon closer examination.

The scope of the second maxim is wider, so it became the main one.

The draft law on "protecting the feelings of believers" adopted by the State Duma on May 21 in the second reading has already been analyzed twice in Novaya Gazeta, both times with disappointing results. Judging by what the deputies have accepted, they continue to persist in the pernicious delusion that “insulting feelings”, firstly, is possible, and secondly, should be punishable. But only if we are talking about religious feelings: the bill does not protect the feelings of unbelievers.

The main consequence of the appearance of such a law will be not only the strengthening of the clericalization of the country, but complete immunity to public criticism of both the top of the Russian Orthodox Church and the leadership of other "traditional confessions". And, of course, the intensification of repressions against citizens objectionable to the authorities: it will be extremely easy to attribute “insulting feelings” to them - in view of the extreme vagueness of the wording, leaving extraordinary scope for judicial arbitrariness.

The concept of the bill is only cosmetically changed in comparison with the original one. And now she does not enter into the Criminal Code new article about the punishment for "insulting feelings", but changes old article- 148th.

From now on, it will provide for liability “for public actions expressing clear disrespect for society and committed in order to offend the religious feelings of believers” in the form of a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles, or compulsory labor up to 240 hours, or forced labor for 1 year, as well as possible imprisonment for a year.

If this happens in places specially designed for worship, other religious rites and ceremonies, the fine will increase to 500 thousand rubles, the period of compulsory work - up to 480 hours, forced labor - up to 3 years, and the term of imprisonment - up to 3 years.

Changes are also being made to the Code of Administrative Offenses: the maximum fines for violating the law on freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and religious associations for citizens are increased from 10 to 30 thousand rubles, for officials- from 50 to 100 thousand rubles. Finally, for “deliberate public desecration of religious or liturgical literature and objects of worship” you can get a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles.

Alas, the deputy is either disingenuous or knows the law poorly.

First, the Civil Code (as well as the relevant resolutions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court) define non-pecuniary damage as “moral or physical suffering caused by actions (inaction) that encroach on intangible benefits belonging to a citizen from birth or by virtue of the law, or violate his personal moral rights or violating the property rights of a citizen.

That is, the moral suffering of a citizen is punishable only when they are caused by the violation of his specific rights. In all other cases, they are not subject to state protection. And the fact that this or that citizen considered himself "offended in religious feelings" - whether because of holding a party he did not like art exhibition, showing a performance he does not like, or holding a rally in defense of the LGBT community from violence by neo-Nazis or pseudo-Orthodox fanatics - has absolutely no legal significance.

Secondly, how will they establish the existence of “intent”, that is, the fact that the actions were committed precisely for the purpose of “insulting”?

Thirdly, the law (unlike the Constitution, which guarantees citizens the right not to profess any religion) does not protect atheists in any way: “ideological views” have nothing to do with religious feelings. But attempts to spread atheistic views (which is again guaranteed by the Constitution) will simply become impossible - they will be dragged through the courts for supposedly “insulting feelings” ...

While the law has not yet been adopted, I want to declare: I am an atheist. I have every right to believe that any religion is nothing more than fairy tales. That there are no gods. That man is descended from apes. That Jesus Christ did not resurrect after death. And I have the right not only to think so, but also to say it wherever I see fit.

Without a doubt, anyone has every right to think otherwise. To believe in any god, to pray to him along with those who count in the same way as he does, and freely talk about it wherever he wants. But his religious feelings do not and cannot have any advantage over my atheistic feelings, and they cannot be subject to special protection.

Regarding the expression "The devil is in the details", a lot of different things have been written on the Internet, but little in essence.

Wiki (in English) has a funny point.

First, this idiom is a shifter.
It originally sounded like "God is in the details."

The mutation of this expression is associated with several prominent people of German and French origin.

Many attribute the phrase to I. Goethe: "Der Teufel steckt im Detail oder da ist doch der Wurm drin!" (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
but I didn't find confirmation.

Therefore, the RuNet statement: Full statement Goethe "God is in the little things, and the devil is in the extremes." -- can be viewed with skepticism.

Several cultures are fighting for the primacy of pronunciation at once.
Due to the fact that it is not completely clear who is the first, the authors come to a brilliant solution: "God is in the details" and so on. -- "ancient saying Germans and French, and it is no longer possible to find out the original author ... "

Other options:
- it was an expression Seems, was a favorite of the German art historian Abi Warburg (1866-1929), although Warburg's biographer, E. M. Gombrich, does not confirm that it was Warburg who invented it.
-- formerly the form "Le Bon Dieu Est Dans Le Detail" (the good God is in the details) is attributed to Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
-- in the obituary "The New York Times" in 1969, this became catchphrase"God is hidden in small details” and associate him with the architect of the modern glass-skyscraper style - this is the architect German descent Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969).

Who replaced God with the devil is unknown.

You can rephrase and think out the meaning of the expression in a dozen ways:
God is in the details, the devil is in the extremes
The devil is in the details, the whole machine belongs to God.
Overcoming the difficult begins with the easy, the realization of the great begins with the small.
"Everything starts small and ends with the Universe"
God and the devil are an inseparable whole.
The devil is in the details, the little things and the shades.
Trifles can be ignored, forgiven, and extremes can either be loved or hated.
...
In general, as in any aphorism - an abyss of meanings.

The devil/God is in the details.
Der Teufel steckt im Detail.
Le bon Dieu est dans le detail.

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It is curious that the figurative expression formed the basis of a huge number of jokes (and then anecdotes related to the fact that an inattentive person in a dialogue with a cunning Devil misses some important detail.

The Devil is the first liar and the father of lies, "the doctor of lies, since the lie was invented by himself" (Weyer, On Deceptions, ch. 3, § 4).

The devil, after Christ's victory over him, lost his right to man and therefore cannot act by force: he "can deceive people, but he can no longer subjugate them by force" (Isidore of Pelusius. Epistle CLIV: Anatoly the Deacon. Col. 1239).

That is why in medieval legends there are so rare cases of the directly material, rough influence of the devil on a person: demons act here by temptation and deceit.

There are many such stories and parables (Pact with the devil), but there are also many stories about a person deceiving the devil
In "The Life of St. Basil the Great,” the devil is indignant at the unfaithfulness of Christians: “You Christians are good at subterfuge; when you need me, you come to me; when they begin to persecute you, you renounce me and approach your Christ, and he, as good and merciful, receives you ”(Sar. VIII. Col. 302-303).

The queen of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia, Brungo (7th century), signed an agreement with Satan, according to which he had to build a road in one night, before the rooster crowed. However, the queen made the rooster crow at the very moment when the devil was carrying the last stone to its intended place.
As a result, the treaty was broken (Collin de Plancy, 121).

Master Gerard, the legendary builder of the unfinished Cologne Cathedral, received a building plan from the devil in exchange for a corresponding contract; but Gerard, grabbing the plan extended by the devil with one hand, with the other hand presented the unclean relics of St. Ursula, which put him to flight - however, the devil, recoiling from the relics, pulled out the most valuable piece from the plan, so the cathedral remained unfinished (Collin de Plancy, 301).

A certain Jack and the devil were building a bridge near Kentmouth; everything that they built at night collapsed during the day, but the devil finally completed the bridge, on condition that he received the soul of the first creature that crossed the bridge; Jack threw a bone across the bridge and the dog ran over him (Russell, Lucifer, 74).

In the French version of this legend, about the Pont Saint-Cloud in Paris, the bridge is crossed first by a black cat (Givry, 150).

The devil built a house for the shoemaker, flattered by the promise that the shoemaker would give him his soul as soon as the lit candle burned out; the shoemaker blows out the candle before it burns out, and the devil is left with nothing (Russell, Lucifer, 74).

Nostradamus signed an agreement with the devil, according to which he must belong to the devil after death, both if he is buried in the church, and if he is buried outside of it. The foresight of the devil, who insisted on this reservation, turned out to be a trap for him: the cunning prophet ordered in his will that his coffin be walled up in the sacristy wall. It turned out that Nostradamus was buried neither in the church nor outside it, and the contract, of course, was terminated (Collin de Plancy, 494).

Rabbi Joshua Ben-Levi, dying, asks the devil to show him at least the entrance to paradise - the devil agrees, but the rabbi, seeing the gates of paradise, rushes to them, enters paradise and swears "by the name of the living God" that he will never leave here. God has no choice but to agree with him. Thus the rabbi “deceives” both the devil and God at the same time (Collin de Plancy, 379).

An innovative, albeit completely suicidal, position on this issue was taken by Johann Faust, who (according to the testimony of the Thuringian and Erfurt chronicles of Z. Hogel; folk book gives the same version - Faust, 109) consciously refused to break the contract with the devil, not wanting to deceive him: “My oath bound me tightly: because of my insolence I despised God, treacherously backed down from him, relying more on the devil than on him. Therefore, I cannot now return to him, nor console myself with his mercy, which I so thoughtlessly despised. Moreover, it would be dishonest and disgraceful to violate the treaty, which I personally sealed with my own blood. After all, the devil honestly kept everything that he promised me ”(testimonies about Faust, 32).

But the brightest page about how the devil (Satan, hell...sometimes his role is played by a fairy) hides some little things in the details...but then as a result it turns out that the person missed some moment that could have foreseen, but due to the many distractions or the depravity of the person himself, he did not take into account this detail, which turns out to be ridiculous in itself.

And here I would divide the jokes into two broad categories.
One is the anecdotes that a person did not take into account the "Devil in the Details" because of his viciousness.
The second is the anecdotes that the devil presented a lot of distracting details because of which the person got confused and made the wrong choice.

For the first category exists great amount anecdotes - perhaps they trace their story about the deals of a blacksmith, a priest, some high-ranking aristocrat with the devil, but in a modern interpretation, such an anecdote is originally dedicated to a lawyer.
Short version:
The devil came to the lawyer and immediately offered a deal: - You will win all the processes, you will become the richest person on earth, but at the same time all your relatives will die and go to hell. Time to think until tomorrow - think. The devil has disappeared, the lawyer sits with his head in his hands and argues tensely. - So this is how: I will win all the processes. Let. I will become the richest man on earth. Let's say. All my relatives will die... I don't understand what he wants to catch me on.

I have many versions of this joke - the first time I changed it for the sake of Navalny) (because already for the sake of Poroshenko and for the sake of Russian football players):
The devil appeared to a Russian football player, for example, Kokorin and says:
- You're a terrible footballer. You will be kicked out of the national team and you won't score another goal, but I can help you! You will still receive huge fees, relax in luxurious resorts, drink the most expensive champagne, and even during the anthem you will not need to get up. The only condition is that you can no longer touch soccer ball... Do not rush to answer, think ... Tomorrow I will come for an answer.
With these words, the devil disappeared.
Kokorin was left alone and began to think:
- So! I will continue to receive huge fees, relax in luxurious resorts, drink the most expensive champagne, and even during the anthem I will not need to get up .... But at the same time, I can not touch the soccer ball ...
- Crap! Once again... royalties, resorts, champagne... but you can't touch the ball...
- Crap!!! What does he want to catch me on?
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The metamorphoses of this anecdote reached H. Clinton:
Hillary's election campaign ends and then the devil suddenly appears in front of her:
"I'm here to offer you a deal. I'll give you unlimited wealth, even more power, even more funds. mass media who will indulge your every whim. In exchange, I ask for your soul, the souls of every member of your family, and the souls of all your constituents."
Hillary thinks, then asks, "Unlimited wealth and power?"
"Absolutely unlimited," claims the devil.
"Media Conniving?".
"They will ride and support you no matter what you say or do," the devil assures.
"And you want my soul, the souls of my family, and the souls of my constituents?"
"Yes.
Hillary thinks deeply for a moment and answers:
"So... Well, what's the catch?"
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For the second category - classic version is:
The man dies and goes to hell. The devil says that he must choose a room in hell where he must spend the rest of eternity.
A man enters the first room and sees a bunch of people standing on their heads on the wooden floor.
He thinks, "No way. I can't do this forever."
Enters a second room and sees people standing on their heads on a metal (or concrete) floor.
He thinks "I definitely won't be able to do this forever"
Enters the third - a bunch of people standing up to their knees in shit, drinking coffee and talking peacefully.
He says to himself, "... well, I think I can get used to the smell."
He makes a choice, gets a cup of coffee, gets to know those present, but after 10 minutes the devil appears and comes and says:
"Okay, coffee break is over. Back to the headstand."

Another option:
A man dies and goes to hell. There, Lucifer, inviting him to choose one of three punishments, leads him into the first room. The peasant sees sinners hanging on chains over the fire, and refuses. In the second room, he sees sinners up to their necks in ice, and wasps fly around and sting them right on their shaved heads (bandits?). The man refuses this too, and Lucifer takes him to the third room. There, the peasants see sinners, who are knee-deep in shit, but quite calmly reading newspapers and even drinking coffee. And he decided to choose the lesser of all evils. He also took a newspaper, a cup of coffee, sits, reads, sips coffee. Suddenly the devil appears and says:
- All the rest is over, it's time to turn upside down.

Russian short translation version:
The man went to Hell. Looks - two rooms. In one devil over people
they scoff, in the other - three men knee-deep in shit stand and smoke relish.
And you have to choose one. He did not hesitate to go to the peasants, a cigarette
shot, and also got up with them. They smoke, suddenly a hefty devil runs in:
- So, guys, the smoke break is over! WE ARE REACHING!

one of the first jokes from the second category, according to the professor Jewish origin Mark Perah, who emigrated to the USA, was invented in the USSR.
It seems to me that he is mistaken and the anecdote was invented by American Sovietologists:
Brezhnev died and was sent to hell.
Given his lifetime achievement, the devil allowed Brezhnev to choose to torture himself.
Brezhnev looks into one room - there is Stalin in a bath of boiling water, then he sees Hitler hanging upside down over the fire.
Then he sees Khrushchev holding Marilyn Monroe on his lap.
"Oh," says Brezhnev. "I choose the same torture as Khrushchev's!"
Devil: "Unfortunately, Brezhnev, Khrushchev is not being tortured here. This is torture for Marilyn Monroe."

This category has been developed in many different ways:
Barack Obama dies and immediately goes to hell. The devil joyfully greets him, but explains:
"I don't know what to do with you here.
You're on my list, but I don't have room for you.
You should definitely stay here, so I'll explain what I'll do.
There are a few other people in hell who are not as bad as you. I'll let one of them go to heaven. His take your place you, but I let you choose which one."
Satisfied with this alignment, Obama goes to choose.
Opens the first room - there Ted Kennedy ["Icon of the Democrats"] is trying to get something from the bottom of the pool.
Time after time, he dives under the water, but each time emerges empty-handed.
Such is his fate in hell.
"No," Obama says. "I don't think it suits me. I'm not a very good swimmer and I don't think I can dive for eternity."
The devil leads him to the door to the next room.
There are stones everywhere and Al Gore [another famous Democrat - laureate Nobel Prize peace] with a sledgehammer. All he does is swing the sledgehammer swiftly to smash the rock. But unable to hit the stone, Horus stops, then again a senseless swing. And so for all eternity
"No, this is not good. I have a shoulder injury, and I will have a tantrum if all I can try to hit a stone for ages," Obama commented.
The devil opened the third door.
Obama saw Bill Clinton sprawled on the bed, hands tied above his head, legs spread out to the sides. Monica Lewinsky is bending over him and doing what she does best.
Obama looks on in shock and disbelief, and finally says, "Yeah, I guess I can handle it."
The devil smiles and says:
"Okay, Monica, you're free."
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Longest option:
The politician dies and finds himself in front of the pearly gates of Purgatory.
St. Peter stares at him for a second, runs his finger through the list of names in his book, and finds the right one.
"So, you're a politician...", he pauses.
"Well, yes, is that a problem?"
"Oh no, no problem. But we just accepted new system people's ratings on your profile, and unfortunately, you will have to spend a day in hell. After that, however, you are free to choose where you want to spend the rest of eternity."
"Wait, I have to spend a day in hell?" the politician is trying to start an argument.
“These are the rules,” St. Peter sums up, snaps his fingers, the guy disappears... And wakes up, curled up in fear and covering his eyes with his hands, realizing that now he will see all the horrors of Hell, which he was warned about in earthly life.
But he does not hear any expected screams of pain and does not smell sulfur.
On the contrary, it smells like freshly cut grass or an apple with mint.
"Open your eyes!" - he hears a good-natured voice, - "Don't be afraid, get up, get up, we only have 24 hours."

With fear, he opens his eyes, looks around and sees that he is in a huge hotel room.
Everything looks amazing - furniture, ceilings, lighting.
Wait, it's a penthouse...
Opposite, a smiling man in a smart suit sips a martini.
"Who are you?" asks the politician.
"Mmmm, I'm Satan. Things like that," the man says, holding out the martini policy and helping him up, "Welcome to hell!"
"Wait, this is hell? But... Where is all the pain and suffering?"
Satan looks at him reproachfully:
"Oh, this place has been slightly mispositioned over the years. It's Long story. Bad marketing, gossip and slander.
Either way, this is your number now! The minibar is of course free. Extra towels next to the hot tub. If you need anything, any little thing, just call the servants. But enough about that! It's a beautiful day, and if you're interested in taking a look at what's outside... "

Dazed luxurious environment the politician approaches the full-wall windows, into which the dazzling sun beats, sees a huge golf course below, and the sea a little to the side.
A group of people are standing on the field and waving to him affably.
Satan explains:
"A few minutes drive from the beach and harbor. If you need a yacht waiting for you there"
The politician dresses and, descending in a transparent elevator, passes through a glittering lobby, where everyone greets, and Satan signs autographs and jokes with the staff.
On the golf course are all his friends who have passed away, as well as people whom the politician admired all his life, but never met (their career ended long before he entered politics).
Separated from the group deceased wife, but with the figure that she had at 20 years old.
She smiles and throws herself on his neck.
Everyone rejoices and applauds, slaps him on the back and jokes in a friendly way.
He spends the day in the bright sunlight talking in interesting topics, jesting. And his admiring wife is always there.
They later return to the hotel, where for dinner they end up in a gourmet restaurant with Gandhi (talking about the truth) with Marilyn Monroe in the company).
Laughing, drinking, the wife whispering in her ear... they return to their penthouse and spend the rest of the night making love as fiercely as they did during their honeymoon.

After 6 hours of passion, a person falls on Egyptian pillows made of 100% cotton and falls asleep completely happy...

And wakes up next to Saint Peter.
"So you spent a day in hell. Are you sure it wasn't what you expected?"
"It really was amazing!" the man says.
"So," says St. Peter, "Now you can make your choice. Where do you want to spend the rest of eternity - in hell, where you have just been, or in Heaven, where there is wonderful choir singing, where you can talk with God , all the people in white clothes, and so on."
"Well... I know it sounds strange, but I think I'd rather go to hell," the politician says.
"No problem. We fully understand and accept your choice! Enjoy!" St. Peter says and snaps his fingers again.
A person wakes up in complete darkness, the stench of ammonia fills the air, around in the darkness they terribly squeal, yell and moan.
He sees in the reflection of the flames people unsuccessfully trying to swim out of the vast sulfurous ocean.
Suddenly, lightning illuminates Satan next to him.
He wears the same costume as before, but now he grins evilly, and in his hands he has a soldering iron and a coil of barbed wire.
"What is this??" shouts the politician, trembling. He is crying.
"Where's the hotel?? Where's my wife??? Where's the minibar, golf course, pool, restaurant, Gandhi and sunshine???"
"Ah," says Satan. "Yesterday you watched the election campaign. But today, you've already voted..."

One of the last options for the first category of jokes:
A crest sits in a hut, there is little gas, little money, his wife has to earn extra money as a whore in Russia.
Complete hopelessness. Suddenly, Satan appears in the middle of the hut: “I help all those who are desperate, I give you the opportunity to make two wishes: for yourself and for your wife.”
The Little Russian jumped for joy and answered:
“I want Muscovites to lose gas.”
Satan:
"Are you sure about right choice? Will you become even poorer? Is that better?"
Khokhol replies: "It's better, because the Muscovite will get worse."
No sooner said than done. Gas disappeared in Russia, and then in Ukraine. The crest became even poorer.
- Make a second wish now, just don't lose it. Satan says.
- I want all the wives of Muscovites to work as prostitutes. May it be as bad for them as it is for me.
- Oh, you're so wrong. After all, now you will become even poorer, your wife can be fired from work because of competition.
- Nothing, but the Muscovites are worse off.
No sooner said than done. All Russian wives became prostitutes.
Satan has disappeared, the Little Russian is sitting alone in the hut, grieving.
I missed this opportunity and became even poorer. What should I say to my wife now?
The wife came.
- Honey, I have bad and good news.
- Come on with the bad ones.
- Muscovites' gas has disappeared and your virtues have fallen in price.
So we are even poorer now. Well, come on, good news, don't disappoint.
- Muscovites have no gas.

Once again about the causes of the tragedy that happened a year ago in Belgorod and stirred up not only the whole country, but the whole world.

We have already fully drunk on what the "health care reform" has brought us. So calls new government the collapse of the Soviet system of medical care - one of the best in the world! Previously, they went to medicine to save people, now they go ... to make money.

WAS AND FORGET?

The tragedy that happened in Belgorod on the very eve of the new year, 2016, stirred up not only the whole country, but the whole world! Still would! Doctor Ilya Zelendinov beat to death a 56-year-old patient brought in by ambulance to death in the emergency room of the hospital. Alas, it was only this publicity that allowed the righteous judgment to take place.

The favorite son-in-law of a high-ranking local official, Alexander Kulabukhov, was tried to be smeared to the last, almost accusing the murdered man of own death.

Now, more than a year after that tragedy, we are forced to return to it again precisely because then it was simply silenced in Belgorod. But in addition to the deceased, there were still a lot of victims in it. It's about about the staff of the 2nd city hospital.

DOCTOR'S REST IS EXPENSIVE
TO PATIENTS…

The killer doctor robbed his colleagues of the only true value - a good name. He was earned by common hard work for for long years and lost instantly.

As a punishment for what? For the best eye department in the area? For the best gynecological? For the fact that the chief doctor, deputy of the City Council, Volodymyr Lutsenko, broke through the construction of a perinatal center at the hospital? For the first time in modern history region, it was the 2nd city with the help of the regional authorities that managed to build a residential building for its employees? Just in time for that new year, the house - 75 apartments, kindergarten on the ground floor - completed...

Everything collapsed. The team - almost one and a half thousand people - was trampled into the mud. And after the deputy governor Elena Batanova demanded and received a statement from the head physician "on her own", the 2nd city hospital was simply left to the mercy of fate.

It's hard to believe, but... Zhanna Chefranova, the chief physician of the regional hospital, was also (!) appointed chief physician of the 2nd city hospital. It came to someone's mind!

Alas, but to correct the mistake, to return to his place the head physician, who was not allowed to stay in his hospital even as an ordinary surgeon - this did not occur to anyone. Although all the doctors with whom during this year I had to talk on this topic nodded in agreement: the man suffered innocently, he was treated unfairly ...

DEATH FROM BLOOD LOSS OR PROFESSIONALISM?

The worst thing is that not only at the new place of work, Zhanna Chefranova happened complete bummer. In her native regional hospital, too, everything has not been thankful to God for a long time.

It should be said right away: 49-year-old Sergey Karachevtsev was a very healthy person. He was dying in the regional hospital for three weeks: he underwent one unnecessary senseless operation, the second, and the third was already scheduled ...

As Alexander Soloshenko, head of the department, said, “we decided to take a closer look.” They didn't see anything with their eyes. After the second operation, the patient developed peritonitis. He slowly bled to death, he was transfused with almost 20 liters of blood ... He even postponed the flight to the capital when his relatives found 2 million to pay for sanitation ...

Prior to this, relatives, and not doctors, organized the arrival of a consultant from Moscow, were in the hospital and were against transporting the patient to the capital (apparently believing that the end was near and it would be better to do the autopsy yourself?). The hospital also did not have the reagents needed for a special analysis. And my brother took blood for analysis to Moscow...

At 2 am on March 19, Sergei Karachevtsev was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute, where he was immediately diagnosed, which for three long painful weeks could not be made in the main Belgorod hospital. But it was too late, too late.

Sergei was very healthy man. Not everyone in his place would have endured so long ...

And I remembered how the former head physician of the regional hospital, Vladimir Kulikovsky, answered my question: why is the mortality rate in the regional hospital the same, or even less, than in some areas; how can this be, because the most seriously ill patients are brought there from all over the region?

He replied: "They treat well, therefore they die less often." But other doctors unanimously told me something completely different: either the most severe ones are not taken to the regional department, or they are sent back to the districts to die so that the indicators are not spoiled.

HE DOESN'T OWN ANYTHING TO ANYONE?

I had many reasons to meet with Kulikovsky: the doctor himself, the former head of the regional hospital, heads the local medical center, and is a deputy of the regional duma. And in response, she suddenly heard:

Why are you getting into this? Write about something else... Talk to others then. Yes, what am I obliged to ... I am not obliged to anyone! I don't owe anything!

However, he suddenly called back. Ingenuously he explained such a sharp change in his views: he reported to the chairman of the thought, and he reminded him that he was a public person and still obliged ...

Alas, our long conversation really did not give anything. Or vice versa? It turns out that I "asked questions to which there are no answers," and also "I must see for myself that everything is going to the collapse of healthcare."

It remains to be fair to add that no one wanted to discuss the situation with medicine in the region with a journalist! And recently became the former deputy governor Elena Batanova, and the current deputy Natalya Zubareva, and the head physician of the regional hospital Zhanna Chefranova, and ...

For two weeks I called their reception every day to no avail. Probably, on a business trip to Belgorod you need to come for a couple of months or even better for a year at once ...

By the way, only two agreed to the meeting - the former head physician of the 2nd city hospital, but he really could not answer my questions, and her current one.

PASSWORD: "I'M FROM ZOTOV!"

The new chief physician Anton Bondarev - there is nothing newer - we met on the 21st day after his appointment - at first he surprised me with his spontaneity. Who sent you? And he surprised me even more, sternly warning: if I don’t like what you write about me ... And then I stopped being surprised. The master came from business.

Home pride new boss - he was appointed governor! "So you're a thug? Did you get this place by pull? I clarified. Yes, Zotov personally asked and personally appointed Savchenko.

It is worth explaining: Vladimir Zotov is a local oligarch and a deputy of the regional Duma. According to the results of the past year, he was included in the Forbes list in 190th place with a fortune of $ 400 million.

The surname Zotov was repeated in the head physician's speech as a password. Would you like to know another review - and life was a success?

And it always sounded: me, mine ... The remark that he came to someone else's team, which took shape over the years, and it was not she who was hired to work for him, it seems, surprised my interlocutor. So we surprised each other ...

Anton Bondarev and his subordinates seemed to be talking not about the same hospital, but about two different ones.

He: “The main thing is that I have a lot of experience in leadership work.”

They: “Yes, he’s not a doctor, he doesn’t understand elementary things, how can you appoint a person who didn’t work in the hospital as the main one ?!”

“I don’t touch anyone, let everyone work.”

“Yes, the deputy chief for surgery has not yet been officially dismissed, and another is already sitting in his office.”

"I'm upgrading..."

“How dare he mock people - merge planning meetings with insulting comments about doctors into the Internet ?! Why did he come? What does he want?

So far, it seems clear to the team only one thing: we are not his soldiers, and he is not our general.

Olga Kitova,

columnist weekly

"New Tuesday"

Belgorod-Moscow.

KOMMERSANT / FOTODOM

Once again about the causes of the tragedy that happened a year ago in Belgorod and stirred up not only the whole country, but the whole world.

We have already fully drunk on what the "health care reform" has brought us. This is how the new government calls the collapse of the Soviet system of medical care - one of the best in the world! Previously, they went to medicine to save people, now they go ... to make money.

Did you forget it?

The favorite son-in-law of a high-ranking local official, Alexander Kulabukhov, was tried to be smeared to the last, almost blaming the murdered man himself for his own death.

Now, more than a year after that tragedy, we are forced to return to it again precisely because then it was simply silenced in Belgorod. But in addition to the deceased, there were still a lot of victims in it. We are talking about the team of the 2nd city hospital.

The killer doctor robbed his colleagues of the only true value - a good name. It was earned by common hard work for many years, and lost instantly.

As a punishment for what? For the best eye department in the area? For the best gynecological? For the fact that the chief doctor, deputy of the City Council, Volodymyr Lutsenko, broke through the construction of a perinatal center at the hospital? For the fact that for the first time in the modern history of the region, it was the 2nd city, with the help of the regional authorities, who managed to build a residential building for their employees? Just in time for that new year, the house - 75, a kindergarten on the ground floor - was completed ...

Everything collapsed. The team - almost one and a half thousand people - was trampled into the mud. And after the deputy governor, Elena Batanova, demanded and received a statement from the head physician “on her own”, the 2nd city hospital was simply left to its own devices.

It's hard to believe, but… Zhanna Chefranova, the chief physician of the regional hospital, was at the same time (!) appointed chief of the 2nd city hospital. It came to someone's mind!

Alas, to correct the mistake, to return to his place the head physician, who was not allowed to stay in his hospital even as an ordinary surgeon - this did not occur to anyone. Although all the doctors with whom during this year I had to talk on this topic nodded in agreement: the man suffered innocently, he was treated unfairly ...

Death from loss of blood or professionalism?

The worst thing is that not only at the new place of work, Zhanna Chefranova had a complete bummer. In her native regional hospital, too, everything has not been thankful to God for a long time.

... It should be said right away: 49-year-old Sergey Karachevtsev was a very healthy person. He was dying in the regional hospital for three weeks: he underwent one unnecessary senseless operation, the second, and the third was already scheduled ...

As Alexander Soloshenko, head of the department, said, “we decided to take a closer look.” They didn't see anything with their eyes. After the second operation, the patient developed peritonitis. He slowly bled, he was transfused with almost 20 liters of blood ... He even postponed the flight to the capital when his relatives found 2 million to pay for sanitation ...

Sergei was a very healthy person. Not everyone in his place would have endured so long ...

He replied: " They treat well, therefore they die less often". But other doctors unanimously told me something completely different: either the most severe ones are not taken to the regional department, or they are sent back to the districts to die so that the indicators are not spoiled.

Doesn't he owe anyone anything?

Why are you getting into this? Write about something else... Talk to others then. Yes, what am I obliged to ... I am not obliged to anyone! I don't owe anything!

For two weeks I called their reception every day to no avail. Probably, on a business trip to Belgorod you need to come for a couple of months or even better for a year at once ...

By the way, only two agreed to the meeting - the former head physician of the 2nd city hospital, but he really could not answer my questions, and her current one.

Password: " I'm from Zotov!»

The new chief physician Anton Bondarev - there is nothing newer - we met on the 21st day after his appointment - at first surprised me with his spontaneity. Who sent you? And he surprised me even more, sternly warning: if I don’t like what you write about me ... And then I stopped being surprised. The master came from business.

The main pride of the new boss is that he was appointed governor! " So you're a thug? Did you get this place by blasphemy?”I clarified. Yes, Zotov personally asked and personally appointed Savchenko.

The surname Zotov was repeated in the head physician's speech as a password. To learn more feedback - and life was a success?

And it constantly sounded: me, mine ... The remark that it was he who came to someone else's team, which took shape over the years, and it was not she who was hired to work for him, it seems, surprised my interlocutor. So we surprised each other ...

Anton Bondarev and his subordinates seemed to be talking not about the same hospital, but about two different ones.

He: “The main thing is that I have a lot of leadership experience.”

They: “Yes, he’s not a doctor, he doesn’t understand elementary things, how can you appoint a person who didn’t work in the hospital as the main one?! »

« I don't touch anyone, let everyone work».

« Yes, the deputy chief for surgery has not yet been officially dismissed, and another one is already sitting in his office».