Later Career
During World War II, Mester worked as a surgeon at Saint John’s Hospital and in the "Rock Hospital", located in the tunnels underneath Castle Hill in Budapest.
Mester chaired the Surgery Department of the Bajcsy Zsilinszky Teaching Hospital in Budapest from 1947 until 1963. He publicly welcomed the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Communism yet, when it failed, he was not persecuted because of his important medical work.
In 1963, he became Professor and Department Chair at the Semmelweis Medical University in Budapest, and worked there until his retirement in 1973. In 1971, he received the "Doctor of Sciences" title from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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