:05:00
Oh, l'd like to hear
a bit about everything.
:05:03
Actually l started in Sweden,
where l did my residency.
:05:08
Then l succeeded Malmros
under Busch in Copenhagen.
:05:12
And then you went to Aarhus
under Malmros a year later?
:05:15
What was he like ... to work with?
:05:19
Malmros? He's one of the great
stars of Danish brain surgery.
:05:25
A fantastically accomplished
surgeon with the steadiest of hands.
:05:30
lf a child required surgery
we were always to phone him.
:05:34
He always did the children?
- Yes, always.
:05:39
lt was a bit of a problem;
after all, one needed the training.
:05:44
How did the patients regard him?
- They worshipped him.
:05:48
Hardly surprising.
lf the pain is relieved -
:05:51
- and you're given back your life -
:05:53
- it is very easy to be grateful.
Malmros was an innovator.
:05:59
And courageous; there are many
operations he was the first to do.
:06:04
Aneurysms, for example.
:06:08
Dr. Riber, you were on
the Medical-legal Council -
:06:12
- during the Thorotrast case.
With your enthusiasm for Malmros -
:06:18
- didn't you feel that
there was a conflict of interest?
:06:22
ln that regard?
:06:26
Yes ...
:06:29
But not at all
as you imagine.
:06:32
As much as l respected him
for his professional skills -
:06:35
- l abhor him as a man. My years
in Århus were the worst of my life.
:06:43
... l don't know what you want,
but l refuse to vent my spleen.
:06:48
But those years
are your background ...
:06:51
The war years were fine.
But in 1946 -
:06:54
- Malmros
spent six months in America -
:06:57
- acquiring new surgical methods.
l stood in for him.