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Early in my career as an academic surgeon, Professor Hamelmann encouraged me to venture from my home department at the University of Marburg to visit other academic surgical departments in Germany. I was immediately struck by the variety of approaches to similar clinical challenges and surgical research problems. When my good fortune took me to other university centers in Europe, I was particularly impressed by Professor John Goligher’s philosophy and approach to surgical scholarship in Leeds. During the several months I subsequently spent working with him in 1973, I learned as much as I could about his way of doing clinical research and found his and other British perspectives especially valuable because my previous experience in Germany had been largely confined to basic laboratory research. The following year, Professor Wilfried Lorenz of Marburg accompanied me to North America to visit basic research laboratories, clinical departments of surgery, anesthesia, and clinical research centers. We consulted researchers at the National Institutes of Health, Cornell University, and the University of California at Los Angeles, and clinicians at Albany, Chicago, and the Mayo Clinic.
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Troidl, H. (1986). Introduction. In: Troidl, H., Spitzer, W.O., McPeek, B., Mulder, D.S., McKneally, M.F. (eds) Principles and Practice of Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96942-3_1
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