Doctor saved many lives, even his own  Related Articles Courtesy
of the Kurjanowicz family Dr. Wadim Kurjanowicz and his wife,
Christine. Dr. Wadim Kurjanowicz saved many lives, using his
medical talents to diagnosis and treat patients who otherwise
would have died.  He also once saved his wife, his young son and
his mother after they got a brutal form of food poisoning.  And,
in the throes of World War II, Kurjanowicz's medical abilities
spared his own life as well.  Kurjanowicz was born in Russia and
moved to Poland with his family when he was a young boy.  He was
in medical school there when Germany and the Soviet Union
invaded Poland in 1939.  Kurjanowicz would have been forced into
the Polish army if the government had not considered him more
valuable as a medical student and allowed him to continue his
training.  If he'd been drafted, Kurjanowicz likely would have
been killed or imprisoned, as most other Polish soldiers were in
the German and Soviet onslaught, said his son, George
Kurjanowicz.  During t