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First Title value, for Searching Haq, Zafar Ul (1927 - 1984)

2024-09-26T12:01:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details Zafar Ul Haq was born in Masaka, Uganda, in 1927. He studied medicine at the Punjab University, Pakistan, where he graduated in 1950. Following house appointments in Pakistan he returned to his parental home at Masaka where he worked in general practice and as a surgeon to the Nkozi Mission Hospital. Intent on a surgical career he came to England in 1962, taking the Fellowship of the College in 1968. He held surgical posts at St James's Hospital, Tredegar, and at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and an associate specialist post at the Royal South Hampshire Hospital. Finally in 1974 he was appointed consultant in accident and emergency surgery at the Medway Hospital, Kent. His great interest was in the treatment of burns and in the associated plastic surgery. He had a continued interest in scholarship and took great pains to help his juniors in their exams. Success in the surgical fellowship was both expected and achieved under his guidance and he derived intense pleasure from the examination successes of his juniors. Zafar was a perfectionist surgeon who applied the same attention to his hobbies of photography and gardening. It is said that his lawns and borders were as perfect as his skin grafts. He died suddenly in his own department on 26 April 1984. He was survived by his wife, Salmi, and his three sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007312
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First Title value, for Searching Page, Iven Alastair (1914 - 1971)

2024-09-26T12:01:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details Iven Alastair Page was born at South Grafton, New South Wales, in 1914, being the third son of Sir Earle Page. He was educated at the Fort Street Boys' High School and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and then proceeded to the University of Sydney where he graduated in medicine in 1937. After holding junior posts in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital he enlisted in the RAMC in 1940, and served in Iceland, Europe, India, Burma and Thailand, gaining extensive experience in surgery and obtaining the FRCS England in 1943. After the war he returned for a short period to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, but in 1946 started in general practice in Grafton. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1958, and in 1964 he decided to give up general practice and to specialize as a consultant surgeon. His previous experience in general practice, and what he had learned during war service combined to make him an outstanding general surgeon, who gained the confidence of his patients by quietly listening to what they had to say, and by the wise avoidance of unnecessary surgery. He was also well qualified as an accident surgeon in the days before the specialty was well recognized. Page was a keen sportsman and a valued member of the local community, not only in his professional capacity as chairman of his hospital board and as an active member, and ultimately president of the local medical association, but also through his practical interest in the Grafton news media, and in broadcasting. His many and varied activities were brought to a premature end by an illness borne with quiet dignity, and he died at the age of 57 on 5 August 1971. His wife Elizabeth and their four sons survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006001
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First Title value, for Searching Riddell, Leith Alexander (1903 - 1982)

2024-09-26T12:01:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20 2015-09-25
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details The following was published in volume 6 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Born on 5 November 1903 in Wellington, New Zealand, Leith Alexander Riddell was the only son of Alexander Riddell, an engineer, and Hannah Cressall Newman. He was educated at Roseneath Primary School, Wellington, and Wellington College. Later he attended Knox College, Otago, and studied medicine there, qualifying in 1925. After resident appointments in Wellington Hospital he came to England, took the MRCS, Primary FRCS (winning the Hallett Prize) and the Final FRCS, all in 1929, before undertaking a series of postgraduate appointments including one at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, under Bevers. After two years surgical appointments in Port Elizabeth and a research appointment in Finland, he returned to New Zealand to become surgeon superintendent of the Wairoa Hospital in 1938, where he soon built up a reputation as an immensely experienced and careful general-practitioner surgeon, a role which carried him as far afield as Nauru Island. On retiring from Wairoa in 1969 he was invited to Tasmania to take over the management of the accident and emergency department in the Napier Hospital, a position he occupied until his death on 8 September 1982 at the age of 78. A man of academic distinction and unstoppable energy he was active in amateur dramatics (he both wrote plays and acted in them) and also co-founded the Port Elizabeth Surf Life-Saving Club. He married first Miss Ostrorog in 1930 and later Enid Moss, who survived him. He had four sons and two daughters. The following was published in volume 7 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Leith Alexander Riddell was educated at Wellington College and Otago University Medical School. After a short time he came to England for surgical training. He was awarded the Hallett Prize in 1929. Little is known of his hospital appointments before his return to New Zealand in 1938 but he spent time in England, South Africa and Finland where he held a research appointment. From 1938 until 1969 he was surgeon superintendent of the Wairoa Hospital where he had to cope with all the problems of surgery, gynaecology and orthopaedics with little assistance. Many times the hospital matron would act as anaesthetist, laboratory technician and radiologist in order to cope with major surgical emergencies. In addition to his hospital work he acted as peripatetic general practitioner to the saw-milling area in the surrounding countryside. After his retirement at the age of 65 he moved to Tasmania where he was appointed chief of the outpatient and accident and emergency service in the town of Birnit. Following a heart attack he returned to New Zealand intending to retire to Napier but once again he was asked to take control of the accident and emergency department at Napier Hospital. Riddell was a founder of the Wairoa Little Theatre Society where he acted and wrote plays. He was an original member of the Port Elizabeth Surf Life Saving Club and in his latter days enjoyed playing bowls at Bluff Hill Club, Napier. He worked at Napier Hospital until his death on 8 September 1982, aged 78, of coronary disease and was survived by his wife, Enid.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007593
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