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01.04.2013 | Editorial
Passion and commensurability: both are needed for a concurrence of surgery and research
verfasst von:
W. E. Thasler, A. Kleespies, R. Thasler, K.-W. Jauch
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Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
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Ausgabe 4/2013
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Excerpt
As motto for this year’s 130th Annual Congress of the German Surgical Society (30th April to 3rd May 2013), we chose “Chirurgie mit Leidenschaft und Augenmaß”. It expresses the demand of surgery for passion (“Leidenschaft”), which manifests in ardent craftsmanship and readiness towards patients, as well as “a sense of proportion” (“Augenmaß”), meaning commensurability, since every surgical treatment involves injury and cost. This dilemma is well effective in a surgeon’s daily work, where he has to balance passionate surgical performance for the best of patients, who seek help and are dependant and trustful, with rational thought on which treatment is reasonable and feasible. …