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It is a well-known fact in the field of rehabilitation, that less people go back to work after successful medical treatment than could be expected for medical reasons. For instance, in a group of patients after successful open-heart surgery we found that from the patients with valvular replacements and shunts one-quarter had not yet resumed work in the span between 6 and 32 months after surgery [2].

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Dahme, G. (1982). Achievement Motivation After Chronic Disease. In: Becker, R., Katz, J.M., Polonius, MJ., Speidel, H. (eds) Psychopathological and Neurological Dysfunctions Following Open-Heart Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68610-8_30

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