The occupational physician Dr. H. dismisses the connection between profession and illness as unfounded: "The impact of work on health is demonstrated by the fact that a milk truck driver recently died from alcohol poisoning." MR Prof. Dr. med. habil. Werner Schunk, born in 1938, was the director of the Institute for Occupational Medicine at the Medical Academy in Erfurt for many years. Today, he runs his own practice in Gotha.