Word: akchurin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resume its shamble toward what ordinary Russians wistfully call political "normality." Few believe this will happen, though. Most people, including presidential intimates and senior government officials, suspect that Yeltsin is seriously ill, will require much more than a bypass and may not survive. Last week his prospective surgeon, Renat Akchurin, revealed in press interviews that Yeltsin may have suffered another heart attack during his campaign, making any treatment all the more complicated. For planning purposes, one senior official said last week, "we have to assume there's a fifty-fifty chance" that Yeltsin will either die or be permanently incapacitated...
...Rinat Akchurin, 50, the heart surgeon who may have the daunting honor of operating on President Boris Yeltsin, was nowhere to be found last week. His answering machine invited callers to leave a message; his colleagues said he was resting. And by late last week, despite its new commitment to openness about Yeltsin's health, the Kremlin had not said when the operation would be performed or where and by whom...
...formal decision has been made yet" to do the surgery at the Cardiological Research Center, its academic secretary, Dr. Igor Ashmarin, insisted to TIME. "But should they finally choose the center," he then conceded, "it will definitely be Akchurin...
That may explain why the Kremlin is saying foreign specialists will be consulted. One of them, Russian officials say, will be Houston's renowned Dr. Michael DeBakey, 88, who helped train Akchurin. Two German cardiologists will also assist. Many more specialists will be in Moscow later this month for an international conference on cardiovascular problems...
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