[Surgery within the scope of technical perfection and humanitarianism]

The symptoms of the strained relationship between technology and humanity in modern medicine are excessive expectations with regard to achievement, protest on the part of patients against alleged dehumanization, and protest by doctors against dissonance between the tasks of the medical profession and science. - These symptoms require of the surgeon, as a representative of medical progress, that he intensively cultivate the trust-relationship with his patients and a readiness to accept the technical controls of medical research.