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Asset Name:
E007615 - Powell, Keith William (1915 - 1983)
Title:
Powell, Keith William (1915 - 1983)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E007615
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-07-21
Description:
Obituary for Powell, Keith William (1915 - 1983), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Powell, Keith William
Date of Birth:
1915
Place of Birth:
Australia
Date of Death:
13 February 1983
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1938

FRCS 1943

MB BS London 1938

LRCP 1938
Details:
Keith William Powell was born in Australia in 1915 and entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1938. After early hospital appointments he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in the early years of the war but was invalided out in 1943 with the rank of Captain. He passed the FRCS examination later that year and worked as assistant surgeon at St Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea, for two years before going to Brighton, where he was a surgeon to Brighton General Hospital and the Royal Sussex County Hospital. He was a general surgeon with a special interest in the palliation of pain due to malignant disease and he carried out many chordotomies and hypophysectomies to achieve this. He retired from the health service in 1980 but continued to live at Shoreham until his death on 13 February 1983 aged 68, survived by his wife and their son.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1983, 286, 812
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007600-E007699
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Unknown