Denis Tsepov: "Keep your feet cross"

Denis Tsepov - blogger, practicing gynecologist, author of unusual stories. Readers call his books "the best remedy for depression". In the collection "Keep your feet cross", he tells stories of medical practice. Surprisingly, despite the subject, Tsepov's works are unusually positive.

about the author

Denis Tsepov was born in St. Petersburg. Like all Soviet boys, in his childhood he dreamed of becoming an astronaut. But the dreams of interplanetary space quickly dissipated. In their place came an immense desire to help the sick and suffering.

In the Russian blogosphere, Denis Tsepov became famous for his magazine, in which he published stories from professional activities. Readers, he was known under the moniker Sailor Cat.

Denis Tsepov works as a gynecologist-oncologist at a London clinic. His specialization is pathological pregnancy. It would seem that there can be fun in the life of a gynecologist-obstetrician? Nevertheless, the readers of Tsepov's network diary did not miss a single publication, and when reading they laughed through tears.

Close the blog

In 2010, in the newspaper "Daily Mail" without the permission of the blogger-gynecologist, his records were published. In them the author argued about the difference between English and Russian patients. Feminists were indignant. Tsepov's blog had to be closed. But in 2011 the first collection of short stories was published, which Denis Tsepov previously published in the online diary. Books by this author:

1. "Keep your legs cross".
2. "Supermen in white coats."

Histories from the practice of obstetrician-gynecologist

The book "Keep your feet cross" is a collection of short stories. In a small introduction, the author draws the reader's attention to the fact that there is no plot in the works of these authors. Moreover, the outset and culmination in them are also absent. Denis Tsepov calls the book a kind of on-board magazine. In this journal, in detail and impartially recorded various thoughts, dialogues and events that occurred with the author in twenty years of practice.

What did the Chains achieve through their medical activities? In this book, he answers this question approximately like this:

1. To love life.
2. To hate death in all its manifestations.
3. To laugh even when you want to cry.

How he became a gynecologist

In 1995, Tsepov was a student at the Leningrad Medical Institute. In order to get into gynecology, money or connections were needed. Neither one nor the other, the medical student was not. There was one more way to get on the chair of gynecology: to like assistant professor Slava Yakovlev. However, it was almost impossible.

Yakovlev could not tolerate protégé of high-ranking officials and never got his favorites. Tsepov, in order to be closer to his dream, I got a job as a hospital attendant in the department of gynecology. Once there was a case, which forever united Tsepov and Yakovlev. A year later the hero of this article became a surgeon-gynecologist and a pupil of a brilliant assistant professor.

Denis Tsepov in his stories tells about his studies at the senior courses of the institute, work in Georgia, practice in London. Not all stories included in the book are devoted to medicine. Among them there are stories about the usual, but not without the adventures of student life. In one of these stories ("Three tourists and a dog-esthete"), the author narrates about the journey through Karelia.

In the book of Denis Tsepov, anecdotal and touching stories are combined in an amazing way. The author describes medical examinations, childbirth, the first cry of a newborn. Tsepov's stories do not pretend to be the title of this literature. They can not be placed on a par with the "Notes of a young doctor." Nevertheless, medical stories told by a Russian emigrant, received a lot of positive feedback.