Dr radmilo petrović's life story: 'During the smallpox outbreak, hospital rooms smelled of death, and we had no safety goggles'

After World War II, his father was unjustly incarcerated as he was alleged to have helped the Chetniks. He lived in modest circumstances and changed secondary schools depending on which relative could take him in. As his academic record at the Faculty of Medical Science was excellent, he was employed at Torlak, where he worked for a full 35 years. He has seen suffering, panic, and death. He was a poet, he points out, for no more than a year. This is his life story.