My Mother, My Father: Seven Years Later

In memory of my mother and father

My father and mother My brothers and sisters My lovely son Ahmed My friends All paediatrician Our lovely children

To my father

7 LIST OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS 9

Dedication To my father

Mats Dreifaldt (2013): Conduits in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: Saphenous vein, radial and internal thoracic arteries. Örebro Studies in Medicine 93. A novel technique for saphenous vein (SV) graft harvesting, the No-touch technique (NT), has been developed at the Dept. of Cardiovascular surgery, Örebro University hospital. With NT the SV is harvested with a pedicle of surrounding t...

My mother the gardener.

M Y MOTHER DIED AT AGE 90 YEARS FROM complications of a fall at home. The “at home” part was the triumph of her last decade. Having spent 3 years in a German slave camp during World War II, she was terrified of institutional settings. Assistedliving facilities and nursing homes were tantamount to prisons, in my mother’s view, and woe to anyone who suggested otherwise. As a HIPAA (Health Insuran...