[Our surgical heritage: the tragic destiny of surgeons. A professional tragedy 1914: Emil Dagobert Schumacher].
When in 1910 F. Sauerbruch became head of the Surgical Dept. of Zurich-University (Switzerland) he took over a young promising surgeon from his predecessor: E. D. Schumacher. Soon Schumacher became a close and well accepted coworker of the head of the Dept, thus beginning an extraordinary career as an outstanding thoracic surgeon. But it was as early as at an age of 34 years that he fell victim of tuberculosis, a disease he himself had tried to conquer.
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Das chirurgische Erbe: Tragische Chirurgenschicksale. Berufstragik 1914: Emil Dagobert Schumacher.