Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.18.1.6
FROM PHYSICIAN’S BIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARIUS LJUBICA BOSNER
Dubravko Habek
; Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište u Zagrebu / Klinika za ginekologiju i porodništvo Kliničke bolnice Sveti Duh u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Marko Mikulec
; Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište u Zagrebu / Klinika za ginekologiju i porodništvo Kliničke bolnice Sveti Duh u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Previously were published well-known data on Rijeka physician, Dr Ljubica Bosner, about
her work in the Ogulin, Bjelovar, Petrinja and Rijeka hospitals during her excellent surgical
and gynaecological and obstetric practice. The new and now accessible archives of personal
and professional items complete incomplete and unknown biographical information. After
her internship, Dr Bosner worked at a public county hospital in Velika Gorica as a secondary doctor at a well-known orthopaedic ward of that hospital. Circumstances of going to the
Ogulin hospital with an oath to the reigning King Peter II for fidelity, then her professional
activity as a surgeon at the newly opened Foundation Hospital Rebro Zagreb, with occasional departures to the position of director of the hospital and surgeon in Petrinja and Varaždin,
and after the war to new positions at the Regional People’s Board in Istria, are of particular
social and historical interest. Recommendations from her bosses have been found to recognise the profession of surgeon specialist that particularly emphasise her skills, clinical judgment, and performance of major surgical procedures, especially during the war. Her life and
medical career went through periods of great crisis between the two world wars (during the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), then World War II (during the Independent State of
Croatia), and after the war and the Republic of Yugoslavia in which she acted as a surgeon.
The above data in the biography of Dr Ljubica Bosner are completed by previously unknown
and unpublished photographs from her personal and professional surgical life.
Keywords
history of medicine, history of surgery, Ljubica Bosner, Croatia
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240884
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Publication date:
1.7.2020.
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