A medical control system includes an operator device having a touchscreen, a control device, and several medical apparatuses, wherein the medical apparatuses and the operator device are coupled to the control device by respective data connections. The operator device is adapted to display several schematic illustrations respectively corresponding to the medical apparatuses in a first display, and the operator device is adapted, by touching a first schematic illustration of a first medical apparatus, to illustrate the first medical apparatus along with first specific operation functions of the first medical apparatus in a second display, wherein substantially similar specific operation functions of the medical apparatuses are illustrated by substantially similar symbols.
