[From Physician's Biography of Primarius Ljubica Bosner]

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 The above data in the biography of Dr Ljubica Bosner are completed by previously unknown and unpublished photographs from her personal and professional surgical life.