title: [The rise and fall of an physician entrepreneur].
abstract: In 1927 one of the most up-to-date and most beautiful sanatoriums of Central Europe was built on the hills of Buda by László Jakab MD (1875-1940), who at that time had already run - since 1909 - a successful health-resort, the rather popular and successful "Liget-Sanatorium": following a period of expansion and flourishing, his enterprise bankrupted. (The building itself was renewed after World War II - it served first as a hospital for tuberculosis patients and later as a university clinic for internal medicine.) This article tells the story of an entrepreneur physician, including his former and more successful attempts to run a health-care business, and gives detailed account of the rise and fall of private health-resort in prewar Hungary.
authors.forename: Sándor
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dörnyei
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000266:history*; D006294:Health Resorts / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006814:Hungary; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*