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From the Sword to Schindler: A Saga of Gastroscopy

From the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, morgenstern{at}cshs.org

Gastroscopy is an art as well as a science. The art is getting the instrument down; the science is the instrument itself. Rudolf Schindler was a master of both and is properly called "The Father Of Gastroscopy". He can also be called a renaissance man, so varied were his interests. Sword-swallowing played a minor but interesting role in the development of gastroscopy. It is still alive and well.

Key Words: Gastroscopy • Rudolf Schindler • sword swallowing

This version was published on June 1, 2009

Surgical Innovation, Vol. 16, No. 2, 93-96 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1553350609336844


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