Abstract:Unlike the typical collection of papers generally arranged around a topic, this symposium is arranged around a man. In 1970, Professor Harald Tscherne became the director of the newly created trauma department at the Hannover Medical School [1]. At that time, few considered trauma a specialty, and the management of injured patients was often relegated to junior staff at inconvenient hours. Prehospital care systems were rudimentary at best, and few in medicine were thinking about injury prevention. Prof. Tscher… Show more
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