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Asset Name:
E006550 - O'Brien, Bernard McCarthy ( - 1993)
Title:
O'Brien, Bernard McCarthy ( - 1993)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E006550
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-12-11

2015-09-25
Description:
Obituary for O'Brien, Bernard McCarthy ( - 1993), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
O'Brien, Bernard McCarthy
Date of Death:
21 August 1993
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1955

BSc Melbourne 1948

MB BS 1950

MS 1955

MD 1978

FRACS 1959

FACS 1966
Details:
Bernard McCarthy was educated at Melbourne University, gaining a BSc there in 1948, qualifying MB BS in 1950 and received the Melbourne MS in 1955. After early appointments at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and as a demonstrator in anatomy and clinical surgery at Melbourne University, he came to Britain in 1955 and after passing the Fellowship became Nuffield Dominion clinical assistant in the Nuffield Department of Plastic Surgery at Oxford in 1956. He was registrar in plastic surgery at Odstock Hospital, Salisbury from 1957 to 1958 and spent 1959 as a staff specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Roosevelt Hospital, New York. Returning to Australia, he spent most of the rest of his career specialising as a consultant in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Dandenong and District Hospital and at Geelong Hospital Melbourne, and was medical administrator at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne from 1975. He died on 21 August 1993.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1983, 286, 656
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/E006000-E006999/E006500-E006599
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Unknown