Background
BOGUSH, Lev was born in 1905. Son of doctor.
BOGUSH, Lev was born in 1905. Son of doctor.
1928 graduated Medical Faculty, Nizhniy Novgorod University.
1935 developed and pioneered method of ligating pneumolobular veins in lung tuberculosis. 1945 introduced method of surgical ablation of short pleural adhesions for patients with ineffective artificial pneumothorax. 1947 perfected cavernotomy operation thereby popularizing this type of surgery for patients with large caverns.
1954 developed operation of isolated ligation of lobular and segmentary bronchi. Founder and Chairman, Thoracic Surgery Section, Moscow Society of Phthisiologists. Board member, All-Union Society of Phthisiologists.
Member, Editor Board, journal “Problemy tuberkuloza” (Problems of Tuberculosis). Heads organ, for surgical aid to pulmonary tuberculosis patients in outlying regions. Works on instructions and methods of surgical phthisiology for USSR Ministry of Health.
Participates in work of city and village soviets. 1958 in Albania to instruct Albanian physicians in lung surgery. 1959 presented paper at 15th International Conference of Phthisiologists in Istanbul.
Works deal with general surgery, gynecology, lung surgery, etc. 1928-1929 intern, Gorky surgical and gynecological clinics. 1930-1933 Head, Surgical Department, and Chief Physician, Vacha Rayon Hospital, Gorky Oblast.
1933-1934 Chief Physician, Gorky Oblast Hospital. 1934-1940 Head, Surgical Dept, for Lung, Bone and Joint Tuberculosis, Gorky Oblast Tuberculosis Outpatients’ Department, and Assistant, Chair of Faculty Surgery, Gorky Medicine Institute. 1940-1946 surgeon in Soviet Army.
Religion obstructs scientific research and technological progress.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.