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TANULMÁNYOK - ARTICLES - FAZEKAS Tamás: Rusznyák István szegedi belgyógyászati klinikája

SUMMARY István Rusznyák was one of the most remarkable members of the internist school of Baron Sándor Korányi, whose functional understanding of body processes made his school famous. Rusznyák started his career at Szeged where he much improved the university's internist teaching hospital, originally opened in December 1928, which beside healing was a base of medical research and tuition alike. Rusznyák led the Clinique as a director until World War Two. In developing of the Clinique it was not only Rusznyák's medical expertise and efficiency in organisation which helped but also his wide range of personal contacts. In spite of the later he was, nevertheless, deported. After the war he was appointed to the post of director of the 1

st Clinique of Internal Medicine of the Budapest University. His reputation during his years at Budapest, alike in Szeged made him a well known internist and an effective director. Among his friends he could count the best Hungarian medical experts. The article also touches the rather negative role Rusznyák played for the Stalinist regime in Hungary.