 Complete the following phrase:  In 1931 Polonskaya gave up the practice of medicine to become a full-time writer, focusing on prose sketches; the turn from creative writing to journalism was common among women poets at the time, for example her friend Maria Shkapskaya. Towards the end of the decade she was suffering from a worrisome heart condition, which interfered with her work and contributed to recurring bouts of despair, but shortly after the 