Andrey Reutov Neurosurgeon Biography

We talked with him about teaching neurosurgery, whether the female profession is a neurosurgeon, also about work, difficulties, favorite operations and discussed other issues. We advise reading! Why did you decide to become a doctor? Perhaps it sounds trite, but since childhood I was "sick" with neurosurgery. She was in my blood, in my head, in my genes, because I was born in a medical family.

Father is a neurosurgeon, mother is a therapist, a sister is a neurorebilitologist. But the main example for me was my beloved grandmother, known at that time, a neurologist. It was she who in the game manner, since childhood, instructed me a love of medicine. How did you choose the direction? I had the image of my father before my eyes. I remember how in my early childhood, when my father studied at graduate school at the Polenov Institute in St.

Petersburg, I was forced to spend time with him during his duty and hard work. I remember the cabinet and the smell of Soviet hospitals. Even my toys were neurosurgical. Only having become a neurosurgeon, I realized why my father was so upset when I inadvertently damaged his microsurgical set, so scarce at that time. For the first time I saw what the real neurosurgery could and should be in the distant year during the first student internship under the international exchange program in one of the largest Israeli clinics.

There, I realized that modern neurosurgery is a conglomerate of professional microneurosurgical skills, accurate knowledge of neuroanatomy and neurology, coupled with modern medical technical equipment. What attracted you to this profession? I have not seen myself in another specialty. It so happened that until the age of 16 I lived in Africa with my parents. Then in my understanding there were only “ordinary” professions: a doctor, a fireman, a driver, etc.

Naturally, I chose the first. What difficulties did you meet on the way to her? My path to neurosurgery was not unable. After graduating from the medical institute, the passage of the boarding school, professional retraining and a couple of years of work by a neurosurgeon in the neurotrauma department, luck smiled at me, and I entered the residency at the Research Institute of the NC.

It was there that I realized that the level of Russian neurosurgeons is in no way inferior to the world, and the volume of interventions performed against the backdrop of the endless stream of complex patients from the vastness of our vast Motherland is an order of magnitude more than the average European ones. After subsequent years, there were many cognitive congresses, fascinating conferences, a full cycle of four -year training in the courses of the European Association of Neurosurgeons, work on a candidate dissertation on the treatment of patients with mallformation of Kiari.

Should girls go to residency in neurosurgery, work as a neurosurgeon, in your opinion? Modern neurosurgery is extremely multifaceted. Among my colleagues, there are beautiful neurosurgeons in every sense. But we must remember that neurosurgery is a difficult work with great physical and moral return. This must be realized at the very beginning of the path ...

What useful advice will you give to students, future surgeons? I am very pleased with the young "younger" generation. I have repeatedly talked about the fact that the basic knowledge and opportunities for the development of those guys with whom I communicate cannot but impress.

So that we - "old" in no case should we stop and try not to slow down and correspond. Your favorite operation? Probably the most beloved is the one that turns out best .. I mean my favorite patients with Kiary. At the moment, there are already more and more about neuroncology, I am experiencing a true drive from surgery of tumors of the base of the skull. What feelings do you feel when you operate?

Water from questions, you asked me what my favorite book I do not dare to criticize Henry Marsh, but it was Paul Kalanity that was able to convey the true feelings of the neurosurgeon. What is the most difficult thing in your profession? Neurosurgery, like all medicine, is complex. Especially when it comes to neuroncology. I can’t single out a single factor in “complexity”.

You work hard to save the lives of your patients. But this is not always possible .. Is this not “difficulty”? Doesn't the profession get bored? Your secrets from professional burnout if they are? I live neurosurgery. I do not know how to and I will not learn another. Even if I burn professionally ... I have no secrets and recipes. Although I am increasingly asking myself this question.

If there are thoughts and experiences about the patient in my head, then neither sport nor rest, they allow us to abstract from the problem until it is solved. What does your working day and weekend look like? I try to be systemic. Already on the way to work, I clearly plan my day and try to go on schedule. Indeed, at the modern pace, we need to have a lot to have time, and time flies faster.

On the weekend I am a family. Just with the family .. children grow rapidly, and I remember from my own experience how I rarely saw my father because of his work and how this communication is not enough. The only unchanged attribute of my weekend is to go to my favorite bath. Starting from the year, my weekly working cycle ends here.They say that a good bath temporarily reduces IQ.

Or maybe this is what you need to at least temporarily turn off the brain? How do you spend your free time? In fact, there is very little it. Catastrophically little. I try to devote time to sports in order to maintain myself form. This is an important factor in our work. But sometimes I just want to lie at home on my favorite couch. What is the most beloved book by profession, art?

There are a lot of favorite books. Unfortunately, less time remains to read. A couple of pages and sleep ... I can advise future colleagues to read “When The Air Hits Your Brain” I, at one time, bought it in the USA, but now it is available on the internet. Why, despite the severity of the profession, do you choose it every day? Once, my father told me: “Neurosurgery is a real male work.

Daily operations. And you either won, or lost to happiness, there are significantly more victories. That is, he did the case, exhaled and returned home with a sense of duty ”In our work there is no sense of incompleteness as, for example, when you shoveled a bunch of documents and papers in the office, but you know that there will be more papers tomorrow .. Thank you very much for agreeing to participate in the interview and shared their experience, Andrei Alexandrovich!

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