Mikhail Izrailevich Perelman is a world-famous surgeon, TB specialist, academician, scientist, and teacher. He was a man of outstanding intelligence, a zealot, a professional, an example of hard work.
Childhood. Family of Perelman Mikhail Izrailevich
Mikhail Izrailevich was born in a family of Soviet doctors. The main activity of his father is surgery, in this field he won the authority of colleagues, respect and gratitude of patients. Parents for Mikhail and his younger sister were an example in everything. It was they who laid the foundation for universal human values in children, instilled the correct attitude to the profession. In the later life of their offspring, this played a significant role.
All childhood Mikhail Izrailevich Perelman spent in Belarus. In Vitebsk, he graduated from high school with a good certificate. He loved to study. Also actively involved in sports. His cherished youthful dream is to become a pilot. But, unfortunately, due to vision problems, he was not accepted into the flight school. Mikhail Perelman also did not have to become an aircraft designer, since the Great Patriotic War began. Their family was evacuated to Ordzhonikidze, where his father became the head of a local surgical clinic.
Student
In the city of Ordzhonikidze, Perelman Mikhail Izrailevich decided on a profession and decided to become a doctor, but soon, due to active hostilities in the Caucasus, the Perelman family was sent to Novosibirsk. Here Mikhail Izrailevich continued his studies. Of all the medical sciences, he showed particular interest in surgery. To gain deeper knowledge in this field of medicine, he became a member of the circle at the Department of General Surgery, headed by Professor S. M. Rubashov.
In 1943, the family again moved to the city of Yaroslavl. In the difficult war years, there were not enough specialists, so student Perelman had to study and be on duty at the hospital. As a fourth-year student, he independently conducted operations.
After graduating from the Yaroslavl Medical Institute, Perelman continued his studies at this university, where he defended his thesis.
After the war, Perelman was sent with students to the city of Kologriv, where they had to operate and treat people in difficult conditions without light and a centralized water supply. During this time, 154 operations were performed.
Professional activity
Working at the Yaroslavl Medical Institute, Perelman three times wrote research papers for a doctorate in medicine:
- The first topic was devoted to surgical intervention in the treatment of heart defects. For the first time in the USSR, Perelman Mikhail Izrailevich studied, compiled a technique and put into practice a method of surgical intervention on the heart - ligation of the open botanical duct. The research work was framed and sent for review to Moscow, but there was no response. The fate of scientific work remained unknown.
- The second scientific study was vagotomy for peptic ulcer disease. Unfortunately, due to ideological prejudices, it is forbidden to study and put into practice surgical interventions to suppress nerves. Therefore, to defend a thesis again failed.
- The third attempt to obtain a doctorate was the work on the study of pancreatic cancer. But the tragic circumstances, namely the arrest of the supervisor, did not allow further research.
Soon, Mikhail Perelman had to leave the department and move to Rybinsk. There he took the post of deputy chief doctor of the city hospital. It was here that he went through training as a leader and organizer. But Mikhail Izrailevich never stopped operating. As an excellent doctor and surgeon, he became known throughout the city. During this period, Perelman became interested in anatomy, the study of chest diseases and their treatment with surgical methods.
In 1954, Perelman was invited to the capital, where he began work first at the 1st Moscow State Medical University, then at TsIUV, where he would work until 1957. In 1958, at the invitation of E. N. Mishalkin, he worked in the newly organized Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Modern equipment, highly qualified colleagues and mentors allowed Perelman to perform many operations on the reconstruction of the respiratory system, to develop new methods of surgical interventions. It was at this time that he was awarded a doctorate in medicine.
In 1963, Perelman again moved to the capital, where he worked under the direction of Professor Petrovsky B.V. Together with a team of like-minded people, Mikhail Izrailevich explored and put into practice innovative methods in the surgical treatment of the respiratory system. Soon he was awarded the title of professor.
Since 1981, he headed the department involved in the study and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, 1st Moscow State Medical University. Sechenov. After 17 years, he headed the Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, where he worked until the last days of his life.
Awards
During his professional career, Academician Mikhail Izrailevich Perelman was awarded dozens of times all kinds of awards. Order of the Badge of Honor, Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 5 medals, Order of Nikolai Pirogov (2005), Order of St. Anne (Imperial Court).
Personal life
The personal life of Mikhail Izrailevich Perelman cannot be compared in brightness and intensity with professional events. His first wife was a pathologist Tatyana Boguslavskaya. In marriage, they had two sons who dedicated their lives to medicine. Mikhail Izrailevich was a wonderful father. The children loved him very much. The second wife was the People's Artist of the USSR Inna Vladimirovna Makarova, with whom they lived for more than 40 years.
The first meeting of Inna Vladimirovna and Mikhail Izrailevich took place during the war years, when the young actress performed with concerts in military hospitals. The second time they met 30 years later, when Makarova was looking for a doctor for her mother, who suffered from severe asthma. Perelman was able to help the woman. But this is not the end of their relationship. After three offers to get married, Inna Vladimirovna agreed.
Leaving life
Like many doctors, Mikhail Izrailevich did not pay much attention to his health. The main thing for him was his work, students. A few days before his death, he spoke at a conference where he orally spoke brilliantly. March 29, 2013 suddenly did not become the chief TB specialist of Russia Mikhail Izrailevich Perelman. The cause of death is cardiac thromboembolism. This is an irreparable loss both for the family of the academician, and for his colleagues, followers, for all of Russian medicine.