[Conflicts from the viewpoint of the surgeon].

Media-related subjects of conflict include (1) the media's limited but major focus on information, sensation and entertainment; (2) information first published before research done; (3) journalistic eagerness to hide nothing and say everything; (4) permanent onesided praise of surgery creating high utopian expectations; (5) false, at least, exaggerated promises of more than medicine can justify; (6) extreme critics making personal accusations already upon suspicion of surgical errors; (7) stepmotherly treatment of surgical routine, its accomplishments and pressures.

[The limited viewpoint, the media--a medical aggravation].

The reduced view results from a discrepancy between the gigantic supply of the media and the limited capacity of the consumer to intellectually process a wealth of impressions. These remain as gross clichees, which the media repeatedly use as thematically fixed, emotionally charged currency. These tendencies reach everywhere, determining which groups of facts we see and in what light we see them.