The first court decision has been rendered regarding the established fact of "fictitious medical check-ups".

      The court partially upheld Susloparov’s claim, assessing the moral suffering inflicted on him not at 300,000 rubles, but at ten thousand. Igor Vladimirovich “is not at all saddened” by this, since a precedent has been set that allows “the other seven deceived people”: his mother, father, aunt and the neighbors who turned to the Pervomaisky court, to count on “the understanding of Themis.”

      He also plans to go to the police with a statement to “initiate a criminal case on the fact of fictitious medical check-ups” and “the entry of false information about a patient for the purpose of obtaining money,” since the court found the fact of “fictitious check-ups.” And the prosecutor’s office issued a finding of a “violation of the patient’s rights.”

      Susloparov also intends to appeal to the appellate instance with a demand to increase the compensation due to him. He does not see the need to feel pity or heed admonitions that, with several claimants, “the clinic, in compensating the full moral damage, will end up owing a lot of money.”

      Someone here is lying

      Recall that the story of “services provided free to the patient, but work paid to the doctors” began back in April 2023, when Igor Susloparov’s brother died and was sent a notice of disability six months late — on the very day of his funeral.

      While going through the deceased’s documents, Igor Vladimirovich discovered that shortly before his death — in January — his brother underwent a medical check-up at Polyclinic No. 9, and his health had been assessed by therapist Irina Ovchinnikova as “generally ‘normal’.” By that time Konstantin had been bedridden for about a year and could not have walked, or even crawled, to Ovchinnikova’s office. “At first they would lead him to the toilet by the arms, and later they used a bedpan,” the brother recalls.

      When the therapist accused Susloparov of lying, claiming that the patient had come to her appointment in person and then seen all the specialists on his own, Igor Vladimirovich decided to check his medical chart (and then the charts of his parents, relatives and neighbors). Through the state services portal he requested the document and found an entry that he had undergone the check-up. And to say that this information shocked him would not reflect the full extent of his negative emotions.

      First, Susloparov’s height, according to the therapist, exceeded 180 centimeters — meaning that over the past year the 50-year-old man somehow managed to grow by 20 cm. His weight had also reportedly increased greatly — recorded as 80 kilograms, 15 kilos more than his usual weight. The other test results — urine, stool, blood pressure and blood sugar — were simply copied from old indicators entered in his chart during hospitalization.

      By the way, the fictitious check-up of his aunt Lyudmila Ustyuzhaninova — a Group 1 disabled person who cannot move independently and has not left her apartment for 10 years while under the care of an attendant — made a particular impression on Igor Vladimirovich. However, Ovchinnikova claims that the aunt, who weighs over a hundred kilograms, walked briskly through all the specialists and even had no problems in the gynecologist’s office. Separate entries in the medical chart, made in the therapist’s hand, about an examination of the eye fundus, as well as the diagnosis recorded — “hypertensive disease with extensive heart involvement,” which the patient had not previously complained of — gave rise to a large number of questions addressed directly to the doctor at the court hearing.

      Irina Nikolaevna nonetheless firmly held to her version: the patient had been seen by her and had gone to all the specialists, and he is lying and so is his mother, even though during the time of the supposed check-up Susloparov had been confined to bed for about two years and could move only in a wheelchair.

      Interestingly, Susloparov’s medical chart did not contain a document with the patient’s signature consenting to the check-up, and the doctor asserted that this process is not mandatory. When shown an extract stating that the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund (FOMS) had already established a violation and imposed a fine on the clinic — 213 rubles — she merely shrugged. The same was her answer to the question of why, with such a “serious heart diagnosis,” she had not treated the patient.

      Irina Ovchinnikova also found an excuse for why Susloparov’s recorded height and weight did not correspond to his natural measurements, explaining the metamorphosis by saying that “I recorded the data from his words.” After all, she said, there are no scales in her office, and every patient should know and monitor their own weight. Judge Irina Lumpova responded by asking how to calculate an anaesthetic dose if a patient’s weight is unknown, receiving the therapist’s expected answer: “We don’t perform operations here.”