It was between eleven and twelve o'clock. I had started the operation when a huge detonation occurred. The floor of the theatre room was shaking and the instrument nurse got shocked that the scalpel fell from her hand in my hand and had cut my middle finger. Dr Lizette fell over with the stool. She was severely shocked when she came up with a pale face. The instruments had slipped around on the moving instruments table that the nurse had to put them back in place. I spread some brown solution for disinfection on the wound and changed the gloves and continued the operation. The middle foot were cut off through the lower ankle joint and the large tarsal bones were covered with soft tissue flaps which were sutured together over the short foot stump. The huge detonation had shaken the bones of the people not only in the theatre building, but in the whole hospital. It was my concern that the impact could have taken the life of many people. I read the fear in the eyes of the people in the theatre room.The book gives insight into life and the medical work. It demonstrates the exercises of learning and work under extreme conditions by understanding the people in need and in evaluating the challenges by fulfilling the responsibilities and tasks. To put the good intentions into practical perspectives, education must improve to strengthen the willpower for enhancing the capability and skills in the work performance.The biggest goal is humanity. To reach this goal, the prerequisites are personal humbleness, true honesty, tolerance, dedication, passion and determination in commitments and high ethics in the performance. The principles comprise mutual respect and understanding, the willingness to help people in need and to educate children to the best level, and to keep up the values of humanity, which has to be praised and practised sincerely from generation to generation. Everybody is responsible to act accordingly that life maintains the values in its deeply rooted meaning.

1985-1998 Arzt und Chirurg/Unfallchirurg am Hospital in Oshakati (im Norden Namibias nahe der angolanischen Grenze; innerhalb der Kampfzone bis zur Unabhängigkeit 1990)entwickelte eine Operationsmethode, Kindern mit chronischer Schienbein-Osteomyelitis den langen Knochendefekt nach Sequesterentfernung mit vitalem Knochen aus dem Wadenbein zu schließen und so das Bein vor einer Amputation zu retten. (publiziert April 1994 im American "The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery")