Soft pink flesh against cold hard metal — a dialogue between fragility and force that plays out every day in the halls of Basel University Hospital. Here, brain surgery and radiotherapy unfold alongside the quiet work of pathologists examining cells finer than dust, while beneath it all run kilometres of tunnels, carrying the hidden lifeblood of the building.
What feels extraordinary to an outsider is routine here: people arriving at work each morning to cut open a chest, restart a heart, or trace the invisible pathways of the brain. Precision and repetition in service of something vast and human.
Universitätsspital Basel is one of Switzerland’s five university hospitals, with more than 8,000 staff from 80 nations caring for over a million people. It is tied to the University of Basel, where research and practice meet — a place where nuclear physics and medical craft intertwine, and where the boundary between science and survival is negotiated each day.
