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Palliative care: your quality of life takes centre stage
A serious illness changes many things: your everyday life, the way you live together and your thoughts. At Zollikerberg Hospital, you are not alone in this challenging phase of your life. Our Palliative Care Competence Centre supports you and your family and loved ones with professional expertise, experience and humanity. Together, we support you in maintaining your quality of life day after day.
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Hand surgery: Everything you need to know - an interview with Dr Andreas Schierz, Head Physician and Head of the Department of Surgery at Zollikerberg Hospital
At Zollikerberg Hospital, the motto is: precise surgery on one of the most fascinating and at the same time most complex parts of the body - the hand. Hand surgery here means not only modern technology, but above all very precise craftsmanship. This is what Dr Andreas Schierz, Head Physician and Clinic Director of Surgery, and his team stand for. They treat complaints such as carpal tunnel syndrome, rapid fingers, ganglions, hand injuries or fractures with empathy and expertise and use occupational therapy to restore the mobility of your fingers. In this interview, you can find out what is particularly important in these sensitive interventions.
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The learning and education centre takes us further
We all know that learning doesn't stop when training is complete. On the contrary, we face new situations every day that require expertise, creativity and cooperation. This is exactly what the Learning and Education Centre is there for: a place where we can prepare ourselves for the challenges of today and tomorrow.
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Gout: recognising, preventing and treating the causes
Gout is a metabolic disorder caused by too much uric acid in the blood. Uric acid is formed from purines, which are found in many foods and in all body cells. As a rule, purines are broken down into uric acid, 80 per cent of which is excreted via the kidneys and 20 per cent via the intestines. If less uric acid is released from the body, it is deposited in the form of crystals in joints and causes inflammation.
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Vulnerability in medical dialogue
At the Symposium 2025 of our cooperation partner Privatklinik Hohenegg, Ruedi Schweizer, Medical Director of the Centre for Mental Health, together with Anke Reitter, Senior Physician at our Women's Clinic, and Eliane Schmid, Senior Psychologist at Hohenegg, showed how birth and crisis open up moments of deep vulnerability.
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Fast track in the emergency centre: efficient care for patients
With the opening of the new "fast track" in the interdisciplinary emergency centre, Zollikerberg Hospital is taking an important step towards managing the increasing demand in emergencies in an efficient and patient-oriented manner. The new treatment pathway enables patients with less complex but urgent concerns to be treated quickly and in a targeted manner, while at the same time relieving the pressure on the core emergency centre.
In an interview with PD Dr Sima Djalali, Head Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, we find out what considerations were behind the project, how the fast track works in everyday life and what difference it makes for patients and the treatment team.
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We are celebrating 10 years of Women's Permanence Zurich and would like to thank you
We have been serving our patients at Frauen-Permanence Zürich am Stadelhofen since 5 October 2015 - as the first practice for gynaecology and obstetrics in the city. Since then, our team has been providing specialist medical care every day, with or without an appointment. We are looking forward to moving into the new Calatrava building "Haus zum Falken" in spring 2026 and would like to thank you, our patients, for your trust and loyalty.
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"Listening when silence speaks" - Clinical pastoral care at Zollikerberg Hospital
Clinical counselling is much more than just a conversation: it means providing empathetic support in times of illness, crises and existential challenges. In this interview, Pastor Sabine Schneider talks about her experiences as a hospital chaplain - about quiet moments of togetherness, dealing with powerlessness and how small gestures are often enough to give people support and guidance in stressful situations.
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Anita - Between reception, team management and everyday family life
Anita works at our reception with a 70% workload - but her role goes far beyond answering the phone and shift work. As deputy manager, she combines responsibility, closeness to the team and the challenge of balancing family and career. In this interview, she explains how she manages this balancing act, what drives her and how leadership can work from the centre of the team.