BERNARD LOWN AND THE ART OF HEALING IN MEDICINE AND IN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMSстатья
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Аннотация:It is a pity that nowadays it is more popular to speak about actors, singers and football players, or about politicians and influential rich people. But real progress, for example in technology, social life, our security and safety, and in medicine, this sort of progress is due to other people whose role is great and cannot be overestimated. Sometimes these leaders are well known in professional societies but do not want to participate in any public activity. Other great people try not only to be great in their specialist field of science, but try to improve and make life safer for citizens of our beloved Planet Earth.I was really lucky to meet two such great scientists and very publicly active men - Eugenii Chazov and Bernard Lown, who made Nobel Prize level achievements in cardiology. These discoveries - defibrillator (and cardioverter) by Bernard Lown and fibrinolysin therapy by Eugenii Chazov - saved millions of lives. But they didn't receive recognition from the Nobel Committee for these achievements.Instead they received the Nobel Peace Prize for an even more important activity, which helped to save our planet from annihilation in a possible nuclear war.Chazov and Lown inspired me, like many others, with their idea of putting the politicians of two antagonistic nuclear superpowers in each other's shoes through enormous public pressure, using all the authority of physicians.I first met Chazov in the late 1970s and after that become his supporter. This was how I knew about negotiations between Bernard Lown, Eric Chivian and Jim Muller in the US, and Eugenii Chazov, Leonid llyin and Michail Kuzin in the USSR, about the creation of a new organization: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).