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The news of Christian Drosten's switch to veterinary medicine could not have hit us harder in the middle of the pandemic.

That you want to hang your smock on the hook of your practice halfway up on the slope above Ellmau in Tyrol opposite the Wilder Kaiser.

After twelve years, 13 seasons, it felt like two weeks of broadcasting time and despite ratings that “Babylon Berlin” can only dream of on free-to-air television.

What's going to happen without you?

In Tyrol, where every year cohorts of tourists hike in their footsteps across the meadows and paths.

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And in medicine.

You are the role model of all budding demigods in white.

The healer trusted by leading columnists and Alice Schwarzer.

A doctor without limits.

You can find everything, heal everything, very quickly because after ninety minutes your treatment room has to be completely sterile again.

Astrocytoma or gangliosidosis, strange varieties of rare autoimmune diseases - take blood, look at the values, frown, then you have found it like Wickie the Viking, once a plan against the terrible Sven.

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Only against the "BD-1" is no medicinal herb grown because it cannot be found in the Pschyrembel, although it once appeared in Ellmau - Pablo Hagemeyer, the real medical mastermind behind the "Bergdoktor" diagnoses, invented how Loriot the pschyrembelnotor stone louse (BD-1 is the acronym for "Bergdoktor 1").

Healing is always healing of the soul

You are also a real alternative medicine practitioner.

Not just because you are not satisfied with prescribing pills, because healing is always holistic, including healing of the soul and interpersonal sensitivities.

But because you, the world's best television diagnostician, shy away from medical status symbols like the devil does from the parish church in Ellmau.

You probably think SUVs are some kind of Ebola.

Since we've known you, you have been driving this wonderful old green Mercedes station wagon instead of a hospital cliché (should you actually stop looking for a buyer, could you think of us?)

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And we've never played golf either.

Although there is such a fine place on the other side of the street towards St. Johann and Kitzbühel at the foot of the Kaiser.

Once again, of course, it was a rumor that you wanted to quit.

Like almost every season start from the boulevard.

Gasping for breath is dangerous these days

Scattered so often that, like any lie that is posted often enough, you eventually believe it.

And get a gasp.

That is not healthy.

Just now.

We need you, not only as a vaccination ambassador, to which you have just been appointed by the satirist Micky Beisenherz.

So stay with us and stay healthy

Yours Elmar Krekeler