For Justice, Understanding and Humanity

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Helmut Lauschke. For Justice, Understanding and Humanity

Preparations for the future and the withdrawal of the army doctors

The telephone rang on a Saturday morning

Dr Nestor became the first black superintendent in the history of the hospital

Humane psychology versus war psychology

To cut off the girl’s arm

The triangle conversation

The problem of getting milk for the patients. The siren wailed in three waves over the village

The dream of a girl in labour who laid out the torn cloth

The small church bell rang for the Sunday service

Starvation versus rich and regular meals

Before the landing manoeuvre

The transitional period

The helicopter safari over the Kaokoland and the farewell of a great doctor

Power change and the aftermaths

The royal visit

“Attention! Her Majesty The Queen of the United Kingdom”

Willingness, commitment and competence

One who knew and skived

The stage of disrespect and disobedience

The subcommittee’s work for the establishment of a medical faculty at UNAM

Preparation of the international workshop

The missing contribution

How the workshop took place

Visit to the university and to the two hospitals of the Windhoek hospital complex

The outcome of the workshop

There was still something to see

Harlequin with violin without sounding board [as a conclusion]

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Preparations for the future and the withdrawal of the army doctors

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The officer disagreed with the two days. He said that problems would arise in view of the military order. He did neither listen to the medical arguments nor took into account the risk of a human life after operation. He simply said that a military ambulance will take the patient in this evening when he is conscious and transport him to the military hospital. When I realized that a military order was above any medical arguments, I said: “If that is your decision then I will not argue longer. Do what you think is right. I have told you my objection from the medical point of view.” I asked the officer, if he were interested in the amputated arm. The officer agreed that I asked the nurse to bring the arm parcel and hand it over to the officer. We left the dressing room and the theatre building when the amputee with the missing right arm were carried on the trolley to the intensive care unit. The officer followed with the parcel of the cut-off and wrapped-up arm of his man lying on the trolley.

I went back to consulting room 4 in the outpatient department. The two colleagues worked hard and were busy to reduce a dislocated hip on a young man who lay on the floor. The Philippine colleague had put his right foot against the conjunction of the pubic bones [symphysis] and pulled the left leg. I assisted by pushing the greater trochanter downward when the dislocated femur head snapped with a dull sound back into the joint socket [acetabulum]. The legs were equally long and the feet were in equal position when the man were lifted from the floor onto the trolley and admitted to the orthopaedic ward. The Philippine colleague and the young colleague had beads of sweat on their foreheads. They saw and treated the last patients and finished the work shortly before six o’clock in the evening.

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