Pafko factor
E-book, Czech
Pafko factor
Sixty years at the pinnacle of surgery and life, with humility and respect for every moment
This year, Professor Pavel Pafko celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday and, in a few months, sixty years in the same profession—namely, as an abdominal and thoracic surgeon at the 3rd Surgical Clinic of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. Born in Bratislava, a father of three daughters, a teacher to thousands of medical students, and a mentor to hundreds of young doctors, he is the recipient of many awards, but he certainly does not reminisce about them in this book—neither the honours nor the merits. “I always saw it as things just flowed, and I was just floating along. I never thought about whether I was at the top or how to climb it,” says Pavel Pafko, who, in this publication, looks back on his life with humility and respect, sharing anecdotes from his practice, remembering his patients, students, friends, and companions, and reflecting on contemporary society, the public sphere, culture, health, life, and death.
Pavel Pafko
Pavel Pafko (born 1940) is a prominent Czech surgeon, specialising in abdominal and thoracic surgery. He works at the 3rd Surgical Clinic of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and Motol University Hospital, currently as head emeritus and a popular lecturer among students. He is the founder and doyen of the lung transplant department there. In 1996, he operated on a lung tumour of the then Czech president Václav Havel, and in 1997, he and his team performed the first lung transplant in the country. A native of Bratislava, father of three daughters, teacher to thousands of medical students, and mentor to hundreds of young doctors, he is the recipient of many awards, from the Medal of Merit (2013) to the Arnošt Lustig Award (2020).
Kateřina Kadlecová
Kateřina Kadlecová (born 1980) has been a staff editor at Reflex magazine since 2009 and also worked for twelve years at the Festival Daily of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. She has published reports from the USA (including on Ivy League universities from Princeton, where she was finishing her dissertation) and Mongolia (including on Czech aid to local industrialists and farmers), from Mexico and Ukraine, which were hit by swine flu and panic in 2009, and from the Galápagos Islands about biodiversity and nature conservation. She has interviewed figures such as Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, Mario Vargas Llosa, Irvine Welsh, Dan Brown, Madeleine Albright, and other personalities. Just like Professor Pafko, she has three daughters, but also a son, and lives with them in her hometown of Děčín.
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