Word: geheimrat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the rest of medical science has been closed for good. Gone is the era of the "great man" in surgery, dominated by the European Geheimrat system. The great man seldom saw the patient before an operation. He arrived early at the hospital, scrubbed up and donned a gown that left a length of striped pants showing below. He operated swiftly, with never an unnecessary stroke of the scalpel or a needless word to his assistants and nurses...