The COVID Doctor by RT Documentary takes a peek into the life of a COVID doctor, Oleg Abakumov. He fights the disease in the red zone of one of the COVID hospitals in Moscow and runs an informative and creative Instagram, where he dispels medical myths and, in his own words, “translates from medical to Russian”.
Oleg’s Instagram is popular because every topic is framed into a themed photoshoot to draw attention and be more comprehensible. Oleg is convinced it is good for a doctor to run a blog if they have the resources; that is why he takes his blogging very seriously. This, of course, can’t interfere with the hospital job.
Oleg is originally from a Russian town near Voronezh, but when he heard about the COVID pandemic and the disease spreading in Moscow, he took off immediately. He sees his work in the COVID red zone as fighting a war and is convinced approaching every patient with a good rapport does half the job. And he should know — Oleg was a sickly child with asthma. So he knew the hospital life from the patient’s point of view, and when he grew up, he wanted to come back as a doctor. This is why he became a pulmonologist.
How does he manage to combine his hospital duties and running a blog?
