Bhishikar, Suryakant Jageshwai (1939 - 1972)
by
 
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E005645 - Bhishikar, Suryakant Jageshwai (1939 - 1972)

Title
Bhishikar, Suryakant Jageshwai (1939 - 1972)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E005645

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2014-07-14

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Bhishikar, Suryakant Jageshwai (1939 - 1972), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Bhishikar, Suryakant Jageshwai

Date of Birth
1939

Date of Death
April 1972

Place of Death
India

Occupation
General surgeon

Titles/Qualifications
MRCS and FRCS 1971
 
MB BS Nagpur 1963
 
FRCS Ed 1968

Details
S J Bhishikar qualified from Nagpur University in 1963, and held three resident posts at Nagpur Medical College Hospital before proceeding to England. During 1965-66 he held senior resident posts at three hospitals in Cornwall, and became house surgeon at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske in 1968. He was senior house officer at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon in 1969-71 but then returned to Cornwall as surgical registrar at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. In the meantime he had successfully passed the Fellowships of England and Edinburgh. Unfortunately before he was able to take up a post for which he had been selected at the Plymouth General Hospital, he was killed in a car accident in India in April 1972, aged 32.

Sources
Information from S G Ian Hamilton FRCS

Rights
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Collection
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Format
Obituary

Format
Asset

Asset Path
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005600-E005699

URL for File
377828

Media Type
Unknown