About the Komarovsky system and reality

Biography

Born in Kharkov on October 15, 1960.
In 1983 he graduated from the pediatric faculty of the Kharkov Medical Institute.

He began his career in 1980 as a nurse in the intensive care unit. Since 1983, he worked at the regional children's infectious diseases clinical hospital in Kharkov. Until 1991, he was a doctor in the intensive care unit, and over the next ten years, he was the head of the infectious diseases department. Since 2000, he conducted a pediatric consultation at a private medical center, and in 2006 he opened a consultative medical center - the Komarovsky Clinic - “Clinic”.

Candidate of Medical Sciences (1996).

The author of numerous scientific works, including the monograph “Viral Croup in Children,” as well as popular science articles and books, the most famous of which, “The Health of the Child and the Common Sense of His Relatives,” has gone through more than 30 reprints in Russia and Ukraine.

Evgeniy Olegovich is the author and presenter of a number of television programs. “The School of Doctor Komarovsky,” which started in March 2010, was awarded the Teletriumph Prize three times and enjoys well-deserved trust among television viewers in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Israel, Canada and other countries.

Bibliography

Viral croup in children. Clinic, diagnosis, treatment tactics. Kharkov, 1993.
The beginning of your child's life. Kharkov, 1996.
The beginning of your child's life. Audiobook. Kharkov, 2008.
Beginning of life. Your child from birth to one year. Book+DVD. Moscow, 2009.
The health of the child and the common sense of his relatives. Kharkov, 2000.
The health of the child and the common sense of his relatives. Kharkov, 2007. Revised and expanded edition.
The health of the child and the common sense of his relatives. 2nd edition, revised. and additional Kharkov—Moscow, 2010.
Disposable diapers. Popular user guide. Kharkov, 2002.
ORZ: a guide for sensible parents. Kharkov—Moscow, 2008.
Diary. Our notes about our child. Kharkov, 2008.
A book for the runny nose: about children's runny nose for moms and dads. Kharkov—Moscow, 2008.
Cough book: about children's cough for moms and dads. Kharkov—Moscow, 2008.
36 and 6 questions about temperature. How to help your child with fever. Kharkov—Moscow, 2008.
A handbook for savvy parents. Part one. Growth and development. Analyzes and examinations. Nutrition. Vaccinations. Kharkov—Moscow, 2009.
A handbook for savvy parents. Part two. Urgent Care. Kharkov—Moscow, 2010.
Little tales about hedgehogs. Kharkov, 2012.
A handbook for savvy parents. Part three. Medicines. Kharkov—Moscow, 2012.
Medicines in pediatrics. Kharkov—Moscow, 2013.
About vaccinations for the sensible and inquisitive. 2014.
365 tips for the first year of your child's life. Kharkov, 2018.

The books “The Health of the Child and the Common Sense of His Relatives” and “CHI: A Guide for Reasonable Parents” have been translated into Ukrainian and Chinese. The book “The Beginning of Your Child’s Life” has been translated into Polish.

The text of the unpublished book “Unprepared Help” is also available on the site.

Author's TV projects

School of Doctor Komarovsky. Inter, 2010—2013. Since 2014, the project has been carried out without the support of any TV channels and is completely copyrighted.
Morning at Inter. Inter, 2012.
Emergency care with Dr. Komarovsky. Inter, 2014.

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Autobiography

None of my ancestors ever had anything to do with medicine. And I never cease to be amazed by this. Because very, very often it seems to me that the desire to heal is genetically embedded in me. I'm pretty sure I was already a doctor...

But this is all from the realm of the subconscious. In reality, everything is quite conscious: a friendly family, father and mother are engineers, a younger sister, a beloved grandmother, grandfather’s orders, a pioneer childhood, a very high school.

My mother, before becoming an engineer, graduated from the Institute of Culture and worked as a librarian for several years. The consequences of my mother’s library education are a huge home library, a cult of books and my passion for reading, including at night - with a flashlight and under the blanket.

My future choice of profession was influenced primarily by my younger sister. She was born when I was 10 years old, and the feeling of inexplicable love for her and fear for her is still perceived by me as the most powerful emotional shock of childhood.

By the time I graduated from school, there was basically no choice: Kharkov Medical Institute, Faculty of Pediatrics. Or a completely logical alternative option - service in the Soviet Army.

When preparing for the entrance exams, I remember the feeling that childhood was over. I also remember the words of physicist Pyotr Samuilovich (now he is a professor somewhere in the USA): “Zhenya, you have a bad habit of sleeping at night...”.

The year I entered the institute - 1977 - was special. The day before the rector had changed, there were rumors about bribes in the admissions committee; at least there was a chance of objectivity when taking exams. This was later confirmed: two B's in essay and physics, and two A's in chemistry and biology. I got in!

Medicine

I do not at all perceive my student years as the best and most fun. Like years of hard work - yes. Feelings: a huge amount of useless information, the insanity of the “history of the CPSU” department, the nausea of Komsomol and trade union meetings, the conspicuous dislike of many teachers for their profession, professors who have difficulty speaking and giving lectures from books. And in parallel with this - intellectuals, people who love students and their work, the joy of joining the profession.

From the 2nd year I began to be on duty in hospitals. He held hooks for surgeons, helped nurses (not for money, for himself).

Real work, already for a salary, began after the third year and continued until graduation. First, for a year as a nurse in the intensive care unit of a children's road hospital, and then in the intensive care unit of the Institute of General and Emergency Surgery. Reanimation forced me to look at myself and at medicine in a new way. 10 nights every month surrounded by real doctors, awareness of the value of the information received, joy when someone regained consciousness, the significance of mistakes - human and medical. Death... Children, pregnant 18-year-old girls, old people, alcoholics, big men.

The absolute norm, when they forgot to even say thank you, and a shrill cry: “Murderers!” - the cry of a woman who did not seek help for four days and, on the advice of her grandmothers, covered a three-year-old boy who was struggling in convulsions with a black rag...

By the time I graduated from the institute, pediatric resuscitation was the meaning of life for me. This was real practical medicine, where you not only had to know a lot, but also be able to do it with your hands and make decisions quickly. Medicine, where the cost of error and the cost of lack of knowledge was equivalent to human life.

Since 1983, he began working at the regional children's infectious diseases clinical hospital in Kharkov. Until 1991 - a doctor in the intensive care unit, then for ten years - head of the infectious diseases department.

By 2000, my reserves of patience and ability to compromise in relation to the work of a doctor within the public health care system had run out. At the same time, he parted ways with his native hospital and began conducting pediatric consultations at a private medical center. In 2006, he finally “matured” internally and financially, after which, together with close friends, he created the Komarovsky clinic - “Clinic”.

In the words “Komarovsky Clinic” the main thing is the clinic. A clinic is an institution in which, in addition to treatment and preventive work, the educational process is carried out. The fundamental feature of Klinicom is that the main subjects of education are not doctors and nurses, but ordinary mothers and fathers striving for conscious parenthood.

The ideology of conscious parenthood, parenthood as happiness, and not as a feat - this is the strategic basis of the Clinicom’s activities, and the tactical tools of education are a website and a social network, lectures and webinars, books and television projects.

Writing

In 1993, he wrote the monograph “Viral croup in children.” He wrote himself, without a pulpit, for himself, for friends. I tried to make it easy to read and understand. Happened. By this time there was already a decent supply of grateful patients, so it was possible to publish it without any problems. In 1996, he received the academic degree of Candidate of Sciences for the monograph. I am proud of the atypicality of the situation, because there is no analogue in our country when a practicing pediatrician becomes a candidate of science in this way.

The dozens of letters and reviews I received after the book’s publication convinced me that I can write and have the moral right to do so. And from that time on I write almost constantly.

“The Beginning of Your Child’s Life” is the first popular book, 1996... Its logical continuation is “The Health of the Child and the Common Sense of His Relatives,” 2000. Dozens of articles in newspapers and magazines, a book about disposable diapers, huge paper and virtual correspondence. “Child Health...” is constantly republished in Russia and Ukraine, supplemented with new chapters.

The creation of Klinicom changed everything in the most fundamental way. Writing when you have real helpers, writing when there are caring and empathetic people nearby is just a pleasure. It is not surprising that in the 8 years of the existence of Klinicom I have accomplished much more than in the previous 15 years (see bibliography).

Why am I writing? First of all, because, despite the assurances of many scientists, I remain confident: most children are born healthy. Their health is deprived by their parents and medical workers. The first from illiteracy, the second from fear of illiteracy. Indefatigable pharmacological assistance to pregnant women, terrible overheating in maternity hospitals, untimely breastfeeding, experiments with nutrition, greenhouse conditions, treatment of everything, always.

Our domestic medical science in general and pediatrics in particular, while claiming to be scientific, is increasingly losing touch with real life. These realities are not visible from professors' offices. And for overseas pediatric advisors, our way of life, our mentality, our way of thinking, our answers to questions about “what is good and what is bad” are a sealed secret. And they will never understand us, as long as we understand this ourselves and stop hoping for help, mutual understanding and salvation.

From 1994 to 2014, I received about 300 thousand (!!!) letters: geography - from St. Petersburg to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk within the borders of the CIS plus 89 countries of the world conquered by our women. All these letters are from ordinary people. Thanks, requests to write, send, help, tell, answer questions. At the same time, there are about 2,500 letters from doctors, 50 reviews from scientists, professors and academicians, and not a single one from medical officials.

Practicing doctors, real ordinary patients (not children of ministers and oligarchs) and scientists with employees of city, regional and Ministry of Health are at different poles. Their paths almost never cross.

As a result:

the vast majority of parents do not have adequate, accessible, easy-to-use information regarding basic standards of child care, organization of their lives and assistance in case of illness;
there is a lack of understanding of the fact that in the child-relatives-healthcare system, it is the family that plays the leading role in preserving and strengthening children’s health;
the logical consequence is an exaggeration of the role of medicine, overdiagnosis, excessive treatment based on fear of responsibility.

Hence my main goal: to convince you that being a mom and dad is not hard work, but happiness and pleasure. But there is one obligatory (!) condition - parents have the necessary knowledge.

Well, my task is not so much to treat children, but to educate parents. The solution to this problem is based on Dr. Komarovsky’s conviction that he can offer all family members an algorithm of action that will be simple, understandable, effective and, most importantly, easily implementable within the framework of the national mentality. In other words, together we have more than a real chance of raising a healthy child in our country, taking into account our medicine, our lifestyle and our material capabilities.

A television

The first time I was pulled “on TV” was in 1992: the diphtheria epidemic was in full swing, and all the children with diphtheria were being treated in my department - in general, there was something to talk about... Subsequently, I regularly communicated on a wide variety of “children’s” topics with numerous journalists, but a qualitative evolutionary leap was the emergence of the author’s project “Doctor Komarovsky’s School.”

The main advantage of television is the effectiveness of conveying information. Again, according to many women, TV rarely makes mistakes, so mothers would rather believe the mustachioed guy on TV than a doctor of the highest category, a candidate of science and the author of 15 books...

Family

Married young and stupid after the fourth year. I still never cease to wonder how I got so lucky the first time! We studied in the same course. Katya (Ekaterina Aleksandrovna) is also a pediatrician (ophthalmologist). She gave birth to two boys - Dmitry (1982) and Andrey (1988). The guys are already quite adults, independent, married, and both became dads in 2013. So it was this year that Dr. Komarovsky became a grandfather, and now has a grandson and a granddaughter.

We live in our own house, theoretically the two of us, but almost always someone is running around - friends, children, grandchildren. There is a large garden in the yard, fir trees, birches, two huge oak trees, each over 100 years old. There is no vegetable garden, but there is a grill, a gazebo, a sauna, a tennis table, a basketball hoop, and a cat and a dog for a walk.

Essay on the topic Komarovsky

B. L. Pasternak’s novel “Doctor Zhivago” is an encyclopedia of the life of the intelligentsia during the revolutionary years and the years of the Civil War. The author reveals the secrets of the human soul in his novel. A pure and innocent soul, a corrupt and greedy soul. None of the heroes of the work is secondary; his role in the totality of all images is in its own way the main one.

One of these images is Viktor Ippolitovich Komarovsky. A wealthy lawyer, a ruthless businessman, he will make any deal with his conscience to achieve the desired result.

Pasternak describes the appearance of his hero through the eyes of representatives of different sexes: for a woman, and this is exactly how Larisa Guichard saw him, a handsome, albeit gray-haired man, for Misha Gordon he is an arrogant, dapper, thick-set lawyer.

Komarovsky rents an apartment in a prestigious area, his housekeeper maintains order “like in an operating room.” The apartment is as dark as the hero’s soul. Even a bulldog breed resembles its owner in some way.

Viktor Ippolitovich’s friend is an actor with the last name Satanidi. Together, while walking with the dog, they often exchanged phrases from which it was clear that both hated the whole world. It becomes clear why the author chose such a strange surname for Komarsky’s friend. Only with Satan could a lawyer find a common language.

Viktor Ippolitovich brings only troubles to the people around him. So, by getting his client Zhivago drunk, Komarovsky pushed him to commit suicide. Amalia Guichard's lover, Viktor Ippolitovich, seduces her daughter Larisa. Having learned about her lover's betrayal, Amalia tries to poison herself.

For the lawyer, Larisa is at first just another love affair, but over time he understands the depth of his feelings for her, proposes marriage and does not want secret meetings. She tries to get rid of her annoying lover and hides from him in the Kologrivovs’ house, where she takes a job as a governess. The next meeting brings Larisa grief, loneliness and suffering.

Achieving a goal of any value is Komarsky’s main motto. If he decides that Larisa will be his, he gets his way, leaving the girl, Zhivago and the unborn child unhappy. For a lawyer there is nothing bright and kind; under the mask of virtue there is a terrible person hiding.

The events of the novel take place at turning points for Russia; the change of power and the war do not in any way affect the opportunist Komarsky. The poverty of those around him and hunger do not change the character of the hero.

The image of Komarovsky was simply necessary in the novel. In all his manners and actions, the lawyer resembles Faust from Goethe’s work. On the path of good, as a rule, evil is encountered; this is a pattern of life. And good does not always triumph over evil, as in children's fairy tales.

Other works: ← The image of Totsky in the novel The Idiot by Dostoevsky ↑ Others Volodenka and Petenka in the novel by Lord Golovlev →