Knowledge

Today I went to the ophthalmologist and managed to decipher her scrawl, except recommendations for my primary care specialist. Anyway nothing dangerous for the time being however now it is clear that a proliferative disease could have been suspected already when I was seven and suddenly developed III grade myopia….On the other hand it was in1980, just 11 years after the first case of Cowden’s disease had been described and I do not know whether ordinary soviet doctors had any access to magazines like "Lancet" and so on.
Such isolation can be very productive as in the case of a renowned surgeon Viktors Kalnberzs, who was the first to perform complete woman to man transformation- his man was even able to urinate through newly created phallus, though the most important thing was that this newly created man was very happy in his life.
Conservative treatment is a more complicated thing, however my compatriots can boast of having invented different potent and significant drugs. We also have developed herbal medicine….
But diagnostics is a complete different thing, since it requires a good circulation of information- there are so many diseases and diagnosing some may really require a great deal of knowledge and availability of expensive tests and equipment.
Anyway efficiently diagnosed Cowden's could have saved me hormone therapy at the age of 12-14, but maybe not, since my only life threatening problem then was huge blood loss and it is treated by transfusions, especially if the patient has the most common of all blood groups.