Mykola Amosov practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Mykola Amosov as Ukrainian soviet and Ukrainian surgeon (1913–2002).
Mykola Amosov was born in 1913. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Northern State Medical University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics.
The recorded fields of work are cardiac surgery, gerontology and transplantology.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Star, Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class.
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Mykola Amosov died in 2002, aged 89. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Star
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
- Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
- Held posts at Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics
- Fields: cardiac surgery, gerontology and transplantology
