Marko Turina
{{Short description|Croatian cardiac surgeon}}
Marko Turina (born 23 January 1937{{cite web |url=http://info.hazu.hr/hr/clanovi_akademije/osobne_stranice/marko_turina |title=HAZU • Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti - Marko Turina - Biografija |website=info.hazu.hr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418080803/http://info.hazu.hr/hr/clanovi_akademije/osobne_stranice/marko_turina |archive-date=2015-04-18}} ) is a Croatian cardiac surgeon. He was the Director of Klinik für Herzgefasschirurgie, University Hospital of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. He was one of the first people to insert an artificial heart outside the chest and among the first people to operate on congenital heart defects. Marko Turina is considered as a surgeon of high international prestige.{{cite magazine|url=http://arhiva.nacional.hr/clanak/13105/marko-turina-zagrepcanin-u-vrhu-svjetske-kardiokirurgije |title=Marko Turina Zagrepčanin u vrhu svjetske kardiokirurgije |language=Croatian |trans-title=Marko Turina, a Zagreb native in the pinnacle of global heart surgery |accessdate=24 November 2020 |magazine=Nacional |issue=342 |author=Robert Bajruši |date=5 June 2002 |archive-date=27 May 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527142123/http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/13105/marko-turina-zagrepcanin-u-vrhu-svjetske-kardiokirurgije }}
Biography
Marko Turina was born in Zagreb. He was a great student, but because Communist Party of Yugoslavia declared him a bourgeois he had no future in SFR Yugoslavia.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} At first Communists sent him to Banja Luka to serve in the Army. His wish to attend Belgrade Academy for Medical Officers was denied. After that he decided to leave Yugoslavia. He was considered as political emigrant because of his anti-Communist attitudes.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} He went to Switzerland where he found a job at University hospital of Zürich in 1964 under Ake Senning. In 1985 he became chef of Center for Heart and Blood Vessels Diseases. He was retired in 2004, despite his ambitions to continue his career.{{in lang|hr}} [http://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/najslavniji-hrvatski-kardiokirurg-operira-72-godini-clanak-32187 Najslavniji hrvatski kardiokirurg operira u 72. godini] (retrieved on March 12, 2011) His retirement came shortly after the death of a patient he and his team operated on, the patient was transplanted a heart of non-compatible blood type.{{Cite web|title = Tödlich verlaufene Herztransplantation am Zürcher Universitätsspital als fahrlässige Tötung beurteilt: Marko Turina und zwei weitere Ärzte schuldig gesprochen|url = http://www.nzz.ch/marko-turina-und-zwei-weitere-aerzte-schuldig-gesprochen-1.519479|website = Neue Zürcher Zeitung|access-date = 2016-01-11}} He is still active, he teaches about cardiac surgery around the World.
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Category:Physicians from Zagreb
Category:School of Medicine, University of Zagreb alumni