л и ч н о е мн е н и е УДК 616-006.04:331.54 © 2010 by American Society of Clinical Oncology A Hallmark Moment Mikkael A. Sekeres Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH D espite our methodic natures, or our measured, critical thinking, the choices we make at life's crossroads often eschew science. <...> That is, notwithstanding the efforts we go through to carefully balance the advantages and downsides to important decisions, in the end we let emotions guide us and work backwards to justify ourselves rationally. <...> My first day of residency in Boston, we sat in a conference room that smelled vaguely of Indian food, the remnant of lunches from past noon conferences. <...> To put it more plainly, he did all the work of writing notes, making decisions about patients, and placing invasive lines, while I ran errands for him and was thrilled when I could successfully locate an x-ray in the catacombs of the radiology department. <...> Initially, she was to be intubated and placed on a respirator, but she changed her mind, deciding instead to live her Для корреспонденции: Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD, MS, Department of Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute 9500 Euclid Ave, Desk R35, Cleveland, OH 44195; E-mail: sekerem@ccf.org. 6 last hours breathing air on her own, unassisted. <...> As I was doing my rounds, checking vitals on patients to dutifully report back to Dave, I glanced in her room and saw her husband standing, hunched over her bed, holding a clipboard as she wrote something. <...> I made it back to our conference room. “Hey Dave, what's going on in there?” I asked, gesturing to her room. <...> AUTHOR'S DISCLOSURES OF POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST The author indicated no potential conflicts of interest. <...> Поворотный момент* M.A.Sekeres Несмотря на нашу рациональную натуру, взвешенное и критическое мышление, выбор, который мы делаем на перепутье, часто не имеет ничего общего с наукой <...>