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Reto Falk | Switzerland
You work as a surgeon and an artist and are presently showing your work here in Freiburg. What is hard to get right, a good picture or a good treatment result?
Prof. Schmelzeisen: Basically neither should be easy, but a good treatment result is more difficult to achieve in some respects because the stakes are higher and a patient’s expectations are critical.
How about the art scene’s expectations for a good picture?
Prof. Schmelzeisen: A good picture must transcend expectations and surprise the beholder again and again.
What do you perceive to be difficult in your profession?
Prof. Schmelzeisen: When complications occur which might jeopardize treatment. Major, nasty failures are fortunately a rarity. But that makes them all the more tragic and they often hit me hard, even now.
Is there a recipe for how best to deal with problems?
Prof. Schmelzeisen: Over the years I have tended to become more sensitive and try to see things from the patient’s perspective.
Your greatest professional success?
Prof. Schmelzeisen: Patients our team has hopefully helped live longer.
Reto Falk | Switzerland
Director International Marketing Services
Geistlich Pharma
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