How many thousands of kids in 27 years of work took over Professor Kaminsky! "The appearance of a baby in the hands of God," he says, "and we, the doctors, are only executors of his will."
Day of Professor Vyacheslav Kaminsky is painted by the minute. Otherwise, everything can not be changed: he manages to accept numerous patients, teach at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductology at NMAPE named after PL Shupik (and manage this department), and also to perform operations (Kaminsky is a practicing surgeon). On the account of Vyacheslav Vladimirovich - thousands of lives saved. He looks - as in the picture of a fashion magazine: slim, smart, polite and smiling. On his table is a cup with a dark drink and a small bowl with a honey-nut mixture. "This is my breakfast regardless of the season," explains Kaminsky. - Tea without sugar and excellent, raising the immunity mixture. I can share the recipe. Two spoons of honey, the core of two walnuts, the juice of one lemon. Eating. You drink tea without sugar - and colds will bypass you. Yes, and vivacity will be added, because to work successfully you need a lot of energy. "
Does the work in the ministry of popular gynecologist Vyacheslav Kaminsky turn into an official?
Although I am the chief obstetrician-gynecologist of Ukraine, I am not an official. He came to the ministry in 2005, before this position was full-time. But I refused to work in the state, because more a doctor and a scientist than a civil servant. If I were just put at the table, limited to paperwork, I would die on the second day. I like being among people, I love my job: to treat, to operate, to take delivery.
The working day of the popular gynecologist Vyacheslav Kaminsky starts at 7:30, sometimes a little earlier (this if the night was normal), and ends on a deep evening - at 20:00, sometimes later. I try three or four times a week in the morning to operate before the working day begins for everyone else.
How do you relax?
Doing sports. I swim in the pool, I ride a bicycle, I try to walk a lot. In the winter I go to the gym, work with a barbell, dumbbells, on an exercise bike. In the summer I swim in the Dnieper. For me, it's not a problem to dip into Baptism in an ice-hole - if only there was time. I do not smoke, from alcoholic drinks, which I use extremely rarely, I give preference to dry red wine. As for the products - I choose only natural, I like the first dishes: borsch, rassolniki. I do not recognize any diets and would not recommend women to torture themselves with them.
Is there enough time for rest?
Not particularly. Obstetrics and gynecology take a lot of time: women give birth around the clock, they do not ask what holiday is now - March 8 or New Year. But when all the same it is possible to be pulled out, I go to travel, by the car have traveled all Europe. Many countries have already seen, now I want to visit Australia (although by car, of course, there is no way to get there). In Kiev, the best holiday for me is to go to the picture gallery. I'm friends with many artists. I did not try drawing myself, God did not give me any musical or dance talents, but I can accurately conduct a scalpel.
How do you feel about abortion?
I am aware of the sad statistics: annually 200 thousand Ukrainians are making abortions. The fact that the number of pregnancy interruptions in the last five years has been halved does not yet indicate that the situation has improved. So before you have an abortion, always ask a woman to weigh her decision and think carefully. Sometimes already in abortion I took off women from a chair - they changed their minds. With pride I can say that I managed to discourage hundreds of patients from this decision. I regret that I have dissuaded a little, therefore, today the main direction of our Kiev center of reproductive and perinatal medicine is renroductology. To give joy to motherhood and paternity is much more pleasant and nobler than taking it away. Now I have the opportunity to give up abortions, I do not do them.
But childbirth still accept. Which ones were most memorable?
About two years ago a woman from Ivano-Frankivsk, Oksana Kuchirina, gave birth in our clinic. A unique case: a couple 17 years old had no children, and suddenly my mother became pregnant with four right away! To kids were born without complications, on their feet raised more than a hundred doctors and high ranking officials. We had to organize four teams of children's resuscitators, four reanimobiles, to prepare eight ampoules of an expensive drug-surfactant (so that the little ones could be punished in time). Three boys and a girl were born with caesarean section. The operation was conducted according to the most sparing technology of the woman in labor. All children were born with a weight of more than a kilogram each. Their father was very happy: in six hours he flew a distance of 600 km from Ivano-Frankivsk in his car. The family is still calling me, although now it is a little less often, because children grow up, and parents' worries are added.
How will the woman adjust to ease her suffering during childbirth?
I believe that giving birth to a child is a higher happiness, and the associated difficulties are temporary. For some reason, in our country the process of birth is considered a heroic deed, and not a happy gift - the birth of a new life. Perhaps this affects the fact that women are reluctant to agree to have a child. Hence the demographic crisis in the country. In childbirth very much depends on the mood, preparation, psychological emancipation of the mother and the medical team. In medicine there is the notion of a dominant: pregnancy, childbirth, the desire to have a child. If all these dominants converge in time and space in one person, the process of birth becomes a great happiness. I think that ideally every kid should be welcome, and all family members are expecting the birth of this child. Then the child in utero feels that it is loved, and in the world for him a place is prepared where it will be warmed with warmth and love.
Vyacheslav Vladimirovich, did you take delivery from your wife?
No. And it's not that I was afraid to do it. I am absolutely against the treatment of my relatives. Not a single person personally healed, because the doctor should be a person with a cold sober mind, and emotions can lead to mistakes, especially in surgery. This is my rule.
The son of a popular gynecologist Vyacheslav Kaminsky chose the same specialty. Did you influence his decision?
Anatoly works here, in our clinic, the specialty of an obstetrician-gynecologist chose himself. His specialization is reproductology. I did not influence his choice, although, maybe, he just showed me a personal example, and the profession is also positive. Having children is always great. Perhaps all this worked together, and he followed in my footsteps.
Of course, the son can always address me on any issues, I help him in a professional way, consult, suggest. But he is an independent person with his worldview.
Can you as a gynecologist give several universal advice to our readers?
It is mandatory to be examined once a year from a gynecologist. I do not want to frighten the readers, but the facts speak for themselves: 2.5 thousand women die of cervical cancer every year in our country - that's a lot. It has been proven that cervical cancer is a papillomavirus infection and can be avoided with a vaccine. We have it in Ukraine, its creators received the Nobel Prize. About 8 thousand women die every year due to breast cancer, and their preventive diagnosis is now possible in the earliest stages. Tumors do not develop for six months - they need at least two to three years to manifest themselves.
What, in your opinion, is the secret of a harmonious intimate life?
I do not want to sound like a senile old man, who keeps saying that it was better before. But I think that the liberalization of sexuality - its early onset, frequent change of partners - is not at all useful for adolescent sexuality and mature, including. I am convinced that for a woman and a man is a period of love, platonic feelings, people must mature morally in order to start a full-fledged sexual relationship. When a couple slips through this period, it immediately throws it into a whirlwind of physiological feelings, then such relationships often quickly disintegrate. Because proximity - from the word "close", so it was interpreted by our ancestors. Love must mature, it must be nurtured, the couple must respect each other, and only then sex. Then the family will be strong.