Family Cooking in Times of Crisis

More than one family boat broke to pieces on this reef. But don’t forget: the heroes of Voronovaya are doctors, and their calling is to heal—including emotional wounds. They know where love can be saved by therapy, and where it requires surgical intervention…

The duty traumatologist was Kozyrev, a full man with a sanguine temperament.
— A knife wound penetrating the abdominal cavity, — he reported. — I reviewed the wound—so a clamp has completely gone in there. Operation is needed.
— You certainly know how to give a woman pleasure. Where’s our hero?
“Hero,” the curly young man, sat on a couch in the company of friends, shamefacedly looking down.
Marina put on gloves, laid the boy down, and examined him. The abdominal wall was soft, the pulse was normal. You can hope that no serious internal organ damage will be found. Although anything happens—especially with heart wounds received while drunk. Such victims, for a while, behave quite cheerfully.
The injured man passionately told how he cut lard and accidentally stabbed himself in the side. And then—again, also by accident—he slashed across his own shoulder.
— You should understand that I can’t write such nonsense into the official report, — she sighed. — Nobody has been laughing at that joke for a long time.
— No, but that’s how it was! Lard is slippery!
“Victim and accompanying persons refuse to explain the circumstances of the injury,” Marina dutifully recorded. Let the police figure it out, if they want to.