They called me from the Zero Picket * to tell a very badly injured man was on the way. I put to boil appliances and blood transfusion instrument and sent for surgeons. When the patient arrived everything was ready. But when he saw the mutilated and completely bloodless body Kuznetsov got very angry. I managed to determine his blood type, it was my type – Type B, the third. Kuznetsov did not want to hear of it. «He is already dead!» He got changed and left. But Omelchuk decided to try luck: they transfused my blood to the patient and the doctor was ligating vessels until the pulse, although thready, appeared. Then I started diving anesthesia and Omelchuk - operating. I gave chloroform by drops at long intervals. The patient was so weak! I also was dizzy. The surgery was a success, patient Hacheturov survived.
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* Zero Picket – a place where Norilsk starts.