From early childhood, I could not imagine myself as anyone but a doctor. Although there were no medical workers in our family at all. I believe that the doctor's profession is the most necessary, the most promising and the most noble, despite all the difficulties. The profession of a doctor requires constant work on yourself and does not allow you to lower the bar.

Once a three-year-old child was brought to me for examination with complaints of ear pain and hearing loss in that ear. During otoscopy, the tympanic membrane was gray with a light cone. Other recognizable contours were absent, and compared to the other ear, the tympanic membrane of the affected ear was closer. When I touched it with a probe with cotton wool, the membrane suddenly came to life, began to move on its own and crawled out into the external auditory canal like a worm. The first moment I thought about an unknown helminth. But upon closer examination, it turned out to be a dense gray rubber band up to 5 cm long, which the child stuck in his ear, and due to its density and color, it formed a perfect circle, simulating a membrane and a light cone (due to the smooth surface). So don't believe your eyes, try everything on your teeth.