Guestbook

I had my operation on the 18. April 2016, two months ago now, after having had my attention drawn to the Martini Clinic by a Swiss doctor at a clinic. According to my doctor, Prof. M. Graefen, the surgery was unproblematic, and this proved to be the case. Six days later the catheter was removed, and I have recovered rapidly since then. Each day, the scar serves as a reminder, but otherwise I am very well. I would like to thank all the doctors and nurses who operated on and cared for us patients, day in, day out. To all those who are “only” doing their job; but for the patient it is much more than just a job. Thank you!!

Ich wurde am 14. April mit der Da-Vinci-Technik nervschonend von Prof. Dr Heinzer operiert. Die Operation ist optimal verlaufen. Meine Frau wurde umgehend nach der OP durch Prof. Dr. Heinzer über den Verlauf informiert. Dem gesamten Team der Station 3 bin zu tiefem Dank verpflichtet. Ich habe mich nicht nur medizinisch gut aufgehoben gefühlt. Die persönliche Zuwendung hat sicher zur schnellen Heilung beigetragen. Mein Dank gilt den Ärzten, dem Pflege- und dem Servicepersonal. Um einem Rezidiv vorzubeugen ist noch eine Nachbestrahlung erforderlich, die mittlerweile in die Wege geleitet worden ist. Wenige Tage nach der Entlassung stellte sich die Kontinenz wieder ein. Die Beratung zur AHB von Frau Wittneben war ein Volltreffer. In der "Klinik am Kurpark" in Bad Wildungen wurde ich sehr intensiv und engagiert auf die Bestrahlung vorbereitet. Ich sehe dem Ende der Behandlung mit großer Zuversicht entgegen. Ich kann und werde die Martini-Klinik uneingeschränkt weiterempfehlen, wenn die Sprache darauf kommt. Machen Sie weiter so.

H-L. Goedereis

On the 14. April, Prof. Dr. Heinzer performed a nerve-sparing operation on me using the Da Vinci method. The operation went very well. Immediately afterwards, Prof. Dr. Heinzer informed my wife about the course of the operation. I owe my sincere gratitude to the whole team on Ward 3. I not only felt that I was medically in good hands. The personal attention definitely led to my rapid recovery. I thank the doctors, nurses and service personnel. The radiation therapy, necessary to avoid a recurrence, has in the meantime commenced. I regained continence a few days after discharge. The advice from Mrs. Wittneben to go for follow-up treatment was right on target. At the “Klinik am Kurpark” in Bad Wildungen I was prepared tor the radiation therapy in an intensive and committed manner. I look forward to completion of the radiation therapy with great confidence. I can thoroughly, and definitely will, recommend the Martini Clinic without reservation, should the topic come up. Please continue the good work.

I was admitted to Ward 4 of your clinic on the 26.04.2016 and was operated on the next day by Prof. Dr. Chun.

From the first contact on the telephone, and during the time that followed, I felt very well taken care of. “Take time for the patients” is a concept that is put fully into practice at your clinic.

The professionalism, friendliness and care of the whole team, including Prof. Dr. Chun, was unique, lessening my worries and fears.

Today, 8 weeks after the operation and the aftercare in Durbach, I am very glad that I put myself in your hands.

My sincere thanks to the whole team on Ward 4, to Mrs Klooss and Mrs Lichtenberg from the consulting hour, as well as to Prof. Dr. Chun, for the kind and professional admittance, surgery and care.

Sehr geehrter Herr PD Dr. G. Salomon,

ich möchte mich ganz herzlich bei Ihnen und Ihrem OP-Team, sowie bei allen für meine Nachsorge Verantwortlichen der Station 4, für die gelungene Operation bedanken. Ich habe mich in der Martini-Klinik sehr gut aufgehoben gefühlt und kann sie jedem anderen absolut weiterempfehlen.

Alles läuft auf sehr hohem Niveau ab und wird sehr professionell gehandhabt.

Einfach klasse!

Nochmal Dankeschön an alle!

Dear PD Dr. Salomon,

I would very much like to thank you and your surgical team for the successful operation, as well as all those on Ward 4 who were responsible for my care afterwards. I felt that I was in really good hands at the Martini Clinic and absolutely recommend it.

Everything is run on a very high level and very professionally.

Simply fantastic!

Once again, thank you to everyone!

Liebes Team der Martini-Klink das steht für Euch.

Einen besonderen Dank an Professor Steuber und das gesamte Operationsteam.

Schön dass es Euch gibt.

Detlef Habel

Bitte nehmt an den Studien teil. Ich habe dabei vielleicht von meinen Vorgängern profitiert.

Der Operationserfolg (beidseitig nervenschonend, offen) war rasch wahrnehmbar: Die Entlassung ohne Katheter am sechsten Tag danach, die fast unmittelbar und umfassend wieder hergestellte Kontinenz und bald darauf das histologisch gesicherte Wissen: Der Tumor ist ganz raus!

Dankbar dafür bin ich natürlich vor allem PD Dr. Salomon, der im Vorgespräch die Ängste und die Erwartungen seines Patienten sensibel aufnahm und mich dann so operierte, "wie er selbst gerne operiert würde" (ich glaube es ihm!).

Aber die rasche Wiederherstellung verdanke ich ebenso einem außergewöhnlich motivierten Stationsteam: Reinigungskräfte, Mitarbeiter in der Pflege und Ärzte sorgen höflich, freundlich und zugewandt dafür, dass sich frisch Operierte (einschließlich anreisender Gattinnen) ein bisschen wie die Gäste einer gehobenen Pension fühlen können.

Sehr erkennbar steht hinter der Martini-Klinik ein umfassendes Konzept nicht nur medizinischer Betreuung, das von allen Mitarbeitern engagiert getragen wird.

The success of the operation (nerve-sparing on both sides, open) was quickly noticeable: discharge without a catheter on the 6th day after surgery, the almost immediate and complete return of continence, and the knowledge, histologically confirmed: the tumor had been completely removed!

I am, of course, most thankful to PD Dr. Salomon, who, in the preceding consultations, dealt sensitively with the fears and expectations of his patient, and who then performed my operation “as he would wish to be operated on himself” (I fully believe him!).

But I also owe my rapid recovery to an exceptionally motivated team on the ward: the cleaning personnel and the nurses and doctors give their care in a polite, friendly and approachable way, so that their freshly operated patients (as well as the accompanying partners) feel like guests in a sophisticated guest house.

It is obvious that the Martini Clinic is based on a, not only medical, comprehensive care concept; a concept that is supported wholeheartedly by all the very motivated staff.

Liebe Pflegerinnen und Pfleger,

für Ihre professionelle Unterstützung nach meiner Operation am 19. April 2016 möchte ich mich bei Ihnen allen ganz herzlich bedanken. Ihr Bemühen, so gut es geht wirklich nach der Operation von Tag zu Tag maximal zu helfen, weiß ich im hohen Grade zu schätzen, zumal ich sicherlich eher ein hypernervöser und schwieriger Patient war.

Aber es war nicht nur die professionelle, perfekte Pflege – es war auch die menschliche Zuwendung, das Gespräch und die deutlich werdende Grundhaltung von Ihnen, die mich so begeistert hat. Das Team als Ganzes war großartig!

Ihre Arbeit kann nicht hoch genug geschätzt werden und es gehört zu den Absurditäten des Gesundheitssystems, dass Menschen wie Sie derartig– ich denke das kann man schon aus meiner Kenntnis dieser Dinge so sagen – unterbezahlt werden.

Die Operation selbst war von Professor Graefen, der ja nun wirklich, wie man so sagt ein ‚Meister seines Faches‘ ist so durchgeführt worden, dass mir nach einer Woche rasch der Katheder entfernt werden konnte und ich seitdem absolut null Probleme oder Beschwerden habe. Besser geht es wohl nicht. Insofern auch hier sowie in Hinblick auf das ganze Ärzteteam ein herzliches Dankeschön.

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you all for your professional support following my operation on the 19th April, 2016. I really appreciate your daily efforts to provide me with the maximum help following the operation, especially as I was surely a hyper-sensitive and difficult patient.

But it was not only the professional, perfect care – it was also the very personal attention, the conversations and your fundamental approach that pervaded, which delighted me. The team worked as one marvellous unit!

Your work cannot be appreciated highly enough, and it is one of the absurdities of the health system that people such as yourselves – and I believe my knowledge of these things allows me to make a judgement – are underpaid.

The operation itself, carried out by Prof. Graefen, who is, as one would say, “a master of his art”, was such that the catheter was removed within a week, and since then I have had no problems or complaints. It couldn’t have gone better. Once again, my sincere thanks with regard to this and to the whole team of doctors.

Liebe Pflegerinnen und Pfleger,

für Ihre professionelle Unterstützung nach meiner Operation am 19. April 2016 möchte ich mich bei Ihnen allen ganz herzlich bedanken. Ihr Bemühen, so gut es geht wirklich nach der Operation von Tag zu Tag maximal zu helfen, weiß ich im hohen Grade zu schätzen, zumal ich sicherlich eher ein hypernervöser und schwieriger Patient war.

Aber es war nicht nur die professionelle, perfekte Pflege – es war auch die menschliche Zuwendung, das Gespräch und die deutlich werdende Grundhaltung von Ihnen, die mich so begeistert hat. Das Team als Ganzes war großartig!

Ihre Arbeit kann nicht hoch genug geschätzt werden und es gehört zu den Absurditäten des Gesundheitssystems, dass Menschen wie Sie derartig– ich denke das kann man schon aus meiner Kenntnis dieser Dinge so sagen – unterbezahlt werden.

Die Operation selbst war von Professor Graefen, der ja nun wirklich, wie man so sagt ein ‚Meister seines Faches‘ ist so durchgeführt worden, dass mir nach einer Woche rasch der Katheder entfernt werden konnte und ich seitdem absolut null Probleme oder Beschwerden habe. Besser geht es wohl nicht. Insofern auch hier sowie in Hinblick auf das ganze Ärzteteam ein herzliches Dankeschön.

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you all for your professional support following my operation on the 19th April, 2016. I really appreciate your daily efforts to provide me with the maximum help following the operation, especially as I was surely a hyper-sensitive and difficult patient.

But it was not only the professional, perfect care – it was also the very personal attention, the conversations and your fundamental approach that pervaded, which delighted me. The team worked as one marvellous unit!

Your work cannot be appreciated highly enough, and it is one of the absurdities of the health system that people such as yourselves – and I believe my knowledge of these things allows me to make a judgement – are underpaid.

The operation itself, carried out by Prof. Graefen, who is, as one would say, “a master of his art”, was such that the catheter was removed within a week, and since then I have had no problems or complaints. It couldn’t have gone better. Once again, my sincere thanks with regard to this and to the whole team of doctors.

I (55 years old) was on a yearly control at Aleris in Trondheim, Norway in January 2016. The PSA had increased from 2,5 to 4,6 since last year. A new PSA test two weeks later showed the same level of PSA. The next step was than to take an ultrasound, also at Aleris in Trondheim. They did not see anything on this check. We then decided to take an MR at Aleris in Oslo, which has the only private Cancer Diagnosis Centre in Norway. They saw something on the MR, and took a biopsy the same day. After a short period of time I had a meeting with oncologist Marius Normann at Aleris, and together we decided that a radical prostatectomy by the da Vinci method at Martini-Klinik was the best solution for me.

It was no hurry, and I “booked” a date for the operation which was best for me and my employer on the 13th of April 2016.

The evening after the operation, Professor Alexander Haese, told me it had been possible to preserve all important functions. The catheter was removed the day before I left the clinic, and in this respect my situation has remarkably improved from day to day. It was Hamburg Marathon the same weekend and I wanted to take a walk to see all the people running for “life”.

I don’t think you want to be so long way from the toilet the first day after removing the catheter, Alexander told me. I did not listen on that ear and walked slowly for almost two hours without any pain and any need for any trip to the toilet. Now, 10 days after the operation, I am in good shape again. I take a “long” walk each day and am happy with the improvements from day to day. I am able to do my work as a business controller in a large IT company and look forward to recover slowly, but be in as good fit as possible the summer holidays of 2016. I plan to take part in the Hamburg Marathon in 2017. Wonderful city. To be in good shape before surgery is a smart “decision”.

The 21st of April, I received a telephone call from Alexander: the cancer had been entirely removed and no need for extra treatment. Only 10 days after the surgery, I can confirm that there will not be any problem with bladder control or erection.

I thank Professor Alexander Haese and his team for the excellent medical work and for being there for me with a smile and laugh when I most needed it. I focused as little as possible on cancer and all possible results from the surgery. The best way for ME to handle the situation was with smile and much laughing. What can I do? With the absolutely best to operate on me, I was sure this was going to go as well as possible.

One of the best, was perhaps that one felt that everyone really cared about you and had plenty of time to talk to you and make certain that this would go well.

It was good for me to have people like Julia, Olaf, Marianne, Jasmin, Dimitra ++ to talk to and laugh together with. Thank you for all the advices (curious and asked a lot), always smiling and many good hugs. Love you all. I miss you all. ( I really do). You are fortunate to have a job that means so much to many.

I recommend the Martini-klinik, without exception.

I (55 years old) was on a yearly control at Aleris in Trondheim, Norway in January 2016. The PSA had increased from 2,5 to 4,6 since last year. A new PSA test two weeks later showed the same level of PSA. The next step was than to take an ultrasound, also at Aleris in Trondheim. They did not see anything on this check. We then decided to take an MR at Aleris in Oslo, which has the only private Cancer Diagnosis Centre in Norway. They saw something on the MR, and took a biopsy the same day. After a short period of time I had a meeting with oncologist Marius Normann at Aleris, and together we decided that a radical prostatectomy by the da Vinci method at Martini-Klinik was the best solution for me.

It was no hurry, and I “booked” a date for the operation which was best for me and my employer on the 13th of April 2016.

The evening after the operation, Professor Alexander Haese, told me it had been possible to preserve all important functions. The catheter was removed the day before I left the clinic, and in this respect my situation has remarkably improved from day to day. It was Hamburg Marathon the same weekend and I wanted to take a walk to see all the people running for “life”.

I don’t think you want to be so long way from the toilet the first day after removing the catheter, Alexander told me. I did not listen on that ear and walked slowly for almost two hours without any pain and any need for any trip to the toilet. Now, 10 days after the operation, I am in good shape again. I take a “long” walk each day and am happy with the improvements from day to day. I am able to do my work as a business controller in a large IT company and look forward to recover slowly, but be in as good fit as possible the summer holidays of 2016. I plan to take part in the Hamburg Marathon in 2017. Wonderful city. To be in good shape before surgery is a smart “decision”.

The 21st of April, I received a telephone call from Alexander: the cancer had been entirely removed and no need for extra treatment. Only 10 days after the surgery, I can confirm that there will not be any problem with bladder control or erection.

I thank Professor Alexander Haese and his team for the excellent medical work and for being there for me with a smile and laugh when I most needed it. I focused as little as possible on cancer and all possible results from the surgery. The best way for ME to handle the situation was with smile and much laughing. What can I do? With the absolutely best to operate on me, I was sure this was going to go as well as possible.

One of the best, was perhaps that one felt that everyone really cared about you and had plenty of time to talk to you and make certain that this would go well.

It was good for me to have people like Julia, Olaf, Marianne, Jasmin, Dimitra ++ to talk to and laugh together with. Thank you for all the advices (curious and asked a lot), always smiling and many good hugs. Love you all. I miss you all. ( I really do). You are fortunate to have a job that means so much to many.

I recommend the Martini-klinik, without exception.

Es begann in 2007 mit PSA 5,6 eine Zeit der Unsicherheit, des Verdrängens, der Angst vor Prostatakrebs.

2008 dann ein PSA von 6,7 und die erste Biopsie mit negativem Befund und weiter beobachten.

2013 PSA 9,9, ich war noch nicht bereit für eine OP, aber ich hatte schon von der Martini-Klinik gehört.

August 2015 meine Frau erinnerte mich mit Nachdruck an die Prostata-Vorsorge und das Ergebnis war PSA 13,2. Die Suche nach der richtigen Methode führte mich zur HIFU-Technik oder Bestrahlung als "gute" Alternative zur Entfernung der Prostata. Der sehr angenehme erste Kontakt mit der Martini-Klinik veranlasste mich zunächst am 02.09.15 eine MRT in der Uni-Klinik Eppendorf durchführen zu lassen. Ergebnis positiv mit der Aufgabe, eine Biopsie durchführen zu lassen.

Die Biopsie fand am 27.10.15 in der Martini-Klinik statt. Nach dem unangenehmen Erlebnis meiner Biopsie in 2008 bin ich Frau Linse und Herrn Kühne sehr dankbar für die liebenswerte Behandlung. Es wurden bei 17 Stanzen 2 positive Werte gefunden. Gleason 3+4 mit dem Ergebnis, dass eine OP erforderlich sei. Die Operation mit der da Vinci-Methode wurde von Herrn Prof. Dr. Haese am 01.12.2015 durchgeführt. Es konnte nerverhaltend operiert werden und das Ergebnis war sehr gut. Alle Krebsbereiche wurden entfernt, nur mein Gewebe im Bereich des Harnleiters war brüchig. Aber dank Prof. Haese ist das Ergebnis heute sehr gut. Ich danke ihm auch für die sympatischen Gespräche und umfangreichen Informationen. Leider musste ich wegen des Harnleiters den Katheter 4 Wochen tragen und wurde erst am 04.01.2016 sehr liebevoll und mit vielen netten Informationen davon befreit.

Ich bin in Gesprächen immer noch begeistert von dem gesamten Team der Martini-Klink und kann jedem Betroffenen nur empfehlen dort hinzugehen.

Nach 4 Monaten ist die Kontinenz nahezu perfekt. Kaum Aufstehen in der Nacht und der Drang hat nachgelassen.

Mein Urologe in Kassel ist auch zufrieden mit dem gesamten Ergebnis.

Vielen Dank an das gesamte Team und erhaltet Euch allen die Hamburger "unaufgeregte Freundlichkeit".

Jürgen H.

It began in 2007 with a PSA value of 5.6, a period of uncertainty, suppression and fear of prostate cancer.

2008 - a PSA value of 6.7 and the first biopsy with a negative result, with an indication for regular monitoring.

2013 - a PSA of 9.9, I was not ready for an operation, but I had already heard of the Martini Clinic.

In August 2015, my wife insistently reminded me of my prostate check-up, at which the PSA was 13.2. My search for the right method led me to the HIFU technique or radiation therapy as “good” alternatives to removal of the prostate.

My very pleasant first contact with the Martini Clinic prompted me initially to have an MRI at the University Medical Center Eppendorf on the 02.09.2015.The result was positive and I therefore had to undergo a biopsy.

The biopsy took place on the 27.10.15 at the Martini Clinic. After the unpleasant experience with my last biopsy in 2008, I am very thankful to Mrs Linse and Mr. Kühne for their very kind treatment. Of the 17 punch samples, 2 were positive. The Gleason score of 3+4 meant that an operation was necessary.

Prof. Dr. Haese carried out the operation on the 01.12.15 using the Da Vinci method. It was possible to spare the nerves and the result was very good. All cancerous tissue was removed; only the tissue surrounding the ureter was no longer intact, but thanks to Prof. Haese, the result is now very good. I also thank him for his sympathetic consultations and the comprehensive information he gave me.

Unfortunately, due to the state of the ureter, I had to wear a catheter for 4 weeks, which was then very gently removed on the 04.01.2016, accompanied by a lot of useful information.

In conversations I still get enthusiastic about the whole team at the Martini Clinic, and I can only recommend that anyone in a similar situation go there.

4 months have passed and my continence is almost perfect. I hardly have to get up at night, and the urge to urinate has eased.

My urologist in Kassel is also satisfied with the overall result.

Many thanks to the whole team, and please keep your typical Hamburg “calm friendliness”.

Jürgen H.

Vom 11. bis zum 17. Februar war ich als Patient in der Martini-Klinik in Behandlung. Dem Personal und der Einrichtung auf Station 1 muss ich dabei meine höchste Anerkennung aussprechen.

Die Einrichtung selbst bietet neben den angenehm klein gehaltenen Zimmern (1- bis 2-Bett-Zimmer) eine schöne Ausstattung mit Balkon, Fernsehen/Radio und einem eigens eingerichteten Erfrischungsraum für die Patienten und deren Besucher.

Die vom behandelnden Team mir gegenüber erbrachten Leistungen möchte ich ganz besonders hervorheben. Meinen größten Dank spreche ich dabei dem behandelnden Arzt, Herrn Doktor Michel, aus. Als Fußballfan möchte ich es so ausdrücken: Was Messi auf dem Platz ist, ist Herr Dr. Michel im OP. Dank seiner hervorragenden medizinischen und operativen Fähigkeiten verliefen sowohl die Operation als auch die postoperative Rekonvaleszenz ohne irgendwelche Probleme. In der ersten Phase nach der Operation hatte ich stets das Gefühl, rundherum professionell versorgt und informiert zu werden. Die Teilhabe des Patienten am Behandlungs- und Genesungsprozess war eine willkommene Selbstverständlichkeit. Das Auftreten des gesamten Personals den Patienten gegenüber war immer freundlich, geduldig und hilfsbereit.

Insgesamt kann ich der Einrichtung und dem Personal gegenüber nur das höchste Lob aussprechen und wünsche den behandelnden Ärzten und dem gesamten Team der Martini-Klinik auch weiterhin alles Ärzteglück und allzeit frohes Gelingen.

From the 11-17 of February I was a patient at the Martini Clinic. I would like to express my highest recognition of the personnel and facilities on Ward 1.

Apart from the pleasantly small rooms (only single or double bedrooms), the facilities are attractively fitted with a balcony, TV/radio and a specially equipped room for refreshments for patients and visitors. I would like to make a special mention of the performance of the team that treated me. My greatest thanks go to Dr. Michel, my attending physician. As a football fan, I would put it like this: Messi’s performance on the pitch is the equivalent of Dr. Michel’s performance in the operating theater. Thanks to his medical and surgical expertise, no problems arose, either during the operation or the postoperative reconvalescence. In the first phase following the operation, I constantly felt I was cared for all-round and kept informed at all times in a professional manner. The matter of fact involvement of the patient in the treatment and healing process was very welcome. The demeanor of the clinic staff towards the patients was at all times friendly, patient and helpful.

All in all, I can only highly commend the clinic facility and the staff, and I wish the doctors and all of the whole Martinic Clinic team “doctor’s luck” and continuing success in the future.

Dear Martini Clinic Team,

I was a patient on Ward 4 of your Clinic from the 24.03. to the 29.03.2016. I had to undergo an operation on the prostate as I had prostate cancer. Dr. Salomon performed the operation. Everything went well. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the Martini Clinic team for everything. You are a “super team” and it is a “super clinic”. I will definitely recommend you.

Warmest regards

Andreas Flejszer