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They were called “idiots” and “idiots”, even by the chief physician.
This is an opinion piece from the editorial team. Sydsvenskan’s attitude is independently liberal.
P1’s ongoing five-part documentary about the conditions at Vipeholm Hospital in Lund during the period 1930-1960 continues to terrify. The article left by Chief Physician Hugo Fröderberg reveals a dual nature that was proud of its mission to care for the weak and vulnerable, but at the same time it seems to have failed to attribute human value to them:
“These human beings are so defenseless that you bond with them in a very special way,” Fröderberg wrote in his unpublished memoirs. Still, he seems to have a hard time seeing his patients as human beings and just seems to grudgingly want to keep them alive, which is the core of the medical profession after all.
“Don’t sacrifice penicillin on it, the result is still doubtful,” he says in a patient record. In another, ”
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