When your doctor follows you around.
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Putin 'is constantly followed by thyroid cancer doctor'
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Vladimir Putin is 'constantly' accompanied by a doctor specialising in thyroid cancer, a new investigation shows.
Surgeon Yevgeny Selivanov, of Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital, has flown to the Russian leader no less than 35 times in Black Sea resort Sochi, his favourite place of residence.
The respected doctor's thesis - showing his area of medical expertise - was entitled: 'Peculiarities of diagnostics and surgical treatment of elderly and senile patients with thyroid cancer'.
The discovery by investigative media Project (or Proekt) media - blocked in Russia and now functioning from abroad - backs recent theories that Putin declared war when he was suffering medical problems hidden from the Russian people.
One version is that he has been treated with steroids, leading to a bloated look around the face and neck.
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There’s enough circumstantial evidence of a health problem floating around that it’s worth giving this some attention. What kind of circumstantial evidence? Well…
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There’s the small matter of Putin frequently not allowing his own advisors to come within 30 feet of him in public. Not even the most skittish progressive COVID hawk in the U.S. is as seemingly anxious as he is about catching the virus. For someone to be that concerned, one would think they’d need to have a serious underlying health problem that might plausibly put their life in danger if they’re infected.
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The war in Ukraine seems so misbegotten that the easiest way to explain it is as a desperate legacy play by a dying man. If Putin had the faintest idea about the strength of his forces and Ukraine’s, he surely would have done things differently — unless he’s so worried about imminent death that he thought this was his last chance to become the ruler who absorbed Ukraine into Russia, whether the Russian military was ready for that task or not.
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His face is noticeably “puffier” than it was 20 years ago. It doesn’t look like it’s due to weight gain either. Some have speculated that he’s receiving steroids for an unknown medical condition.
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There have been rumors:
Wishful thinking or something more? According to a new report from a now-banned Russian investigative outlet called Proekt (Project), comparing Putin’s movements with government records reveals that certain doctors have repeatedly found their way into his company over the last few years. And I do mean “repeatedly.”
Maybe he just likes hanging out with cancer specialists?
The Russian investigative outlet Proekt matched the dates of Putin’s official visits to Sochi or unexplained disappearances from public view with local hotel accommodation contracts published on the government procurement website to make the connection. An average of five doctors had accompanied Putin in 2016-17 and nine doctors in 2019, it said…
According to Proekt’s investigation, a group of presidential hospital doctors, nurses and senior executives “may have performed surgery” on Putin in November 2016. At least two members of this group were later reportedly awarded and promoted…
Proekt said the records showed a surgeon specializing in thyroid cancer had spent 166 days in Sochi between 2016 and 2019. This was the longest period spent there by a presidential hospital doctor with the exception of an ear, nose and throat doctor whose visits totaled 282 days.
This Daily Mail story summarizes the Proekt findings at greater length. Evidently at least two doctors with thyroid practices have been linked to Putin. One is a respected surgeon at Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital who’s been to Sochi to see him at least 35 times; a second surgeon with ENT training “who, among other things, can be the first to detect problems with the thyroid gland, including oncological ones” has made at least 59 trips, and his father was recently made an MP in Putin’s party.Supposedly an average of five doctors have accompanied him on trips to Sochi. Normally I’d chalk that up to an autocrat’s paranoia about his health and plots against his life, wanting a medical team near him at all times in the event of foul play. But if Proekt is right about two thyroid specialists being part of the detail: Hmmmmmmm.
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Interesting! i wonder if this is true, and if so, if some of the drugs he is taking are effecting his thinking.
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@taiwan_girl there's so much propaganda floating around from both sides, I don't know what to believe.
The only place I do believe is the site that tracks weapons' losses on both sides. They document that with photos of the destroyed/captured equipment. Of course, the site is biased and not report Ukrainian losses. However I believe their reporting on Russian losses.
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@Axtremus said in When your doctor follows you around.:
Wonder if, as medical students, these folks ever thought “if I work really hard and do really well in med school, I get to grow up and dedicate my life to keeping my head-of-state healthy.”
Back before Putin, I was doing a CABG with my friend, Bryan. Boris Yeltsin was having heart surgery that day, and Bryan looked at me and said, "How would you like to be the guy who kills Boris Yeltsin in the OR?"
