Just after lunch time and I was picking up my camera from the shop where it was being serviced when my mobile rang. The shop was noisy but the message was clear. I had a malignant tumour in my mouth. Professor Ewers apologised for giving me this type of news over the telephone but said that as he was on holiday he was not able to do the face to face discussion that he would normally do.
He had, however, arranged for me to see one of his deputies the next day at the Vienna General Hospital. Professor Ewers is the Head of the Department of Craniomaxillofacial and Oral Surgery in the hospital (www.meduniwien.ac.at/maxillo-facial/home.htm). In German it is the Universitätsklinik für Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie.
The Vienna General Hospital (the Algemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien or the AKH — pronounced Ah-Kah-Hah) is Austria's biggest hospital and is also a University teaching hospital.
When I got to the hospital I was to go to the seventh floor, find his secretary and she would see that I was taken care of.
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