"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Lucrative Fields: Life imitates a Robin Cook novel in Moscow:
Four Moscow doctors have been accused of plotting to murder a patient for his kidneys so that they could use them for lucrative and possibly illegal transplantations.
The case has raised fears that doctors across Russia are engaging in such practices.
The four doctors—Irina Lirtsman, Lyubov Pravdenko, Pyotr Pyatnichuk, and Bairma Shagdurnova—all worked in Moscow City Hospital No 20.
Dr Lirtsman was deputy head of the intensive care unit, Dr Pravdenko a doctor in the unit, and the two men were both transplant surgeons.
