I thought my skein of Hungarian mentors had come to an end, but almost immediately I met Francis Robicsek, a Hungarian doctor -- actually a heart surgeon in Charlotte, North Carolina, then in his late seventies -- who had been a pioneer in open-heart surgery, and, tinkering away in his garage behind his house, had invented many of the devices that are standard parts of those procedures.
Ich dachte mein Strähne ungarischer Mentoren sei an ihr Ende gelangt, aber fast sofort traf ich Francis Robicsek, einen ungarischen Doktoren - genauer gesagt einen Herzchirurgen in Charlotte, North Carolina, damals Ende 70 - der ein Pionier der offenen Herzchirurgie war und, in seiner Garage hinter seinem Haus bastelnd, viele der Geräte erfand, die für jene Prozeduren Normteile darstellen.