How did you become Maurice Müllers successor at St. Gall?
B.G.W. After training under Prof. Francillon at Zurich University Hospital, I found a post in Prof. Stinchfield’s department, in New York. While I was waiting for my United States visa, I decided to tour the main centres of orthopaedic surgery in Europe. When I was in England, I got a telegram from Maurice Müller asking me to come and work with him. I thought, well, perhaps it would be better anyway to work in Switzerland. So I accepted, and spent six and a half years as Maurice Müller’s Senior Registrar. Then, when he got the Chair in Berne, I became his successor at the Canton Hospital in St. Gall. M.O. Why did he want you to go to St. Gall? B.G.W. He had met me when I was a house officer and he was Senior Registrar at Balgrist. Then, when he was in private practice, he started sounding out his colleagues in Switzerland to see who had what it took to be his senior registrar at the centre he was going to – St. Gall. By then, I had a reputation as a hard worker and a good sport, someon
