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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Kenneth Halstead (1918 - 2013)

2024-05-16T03:24:54Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2015-12-14
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Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon General surgeon
Details Kenneth Halstead Smith was a consultant surgeon at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital. He was born on 16 October 1918 in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Samuel Driver Smith, a schoolmaster, and Amelia Smith née Halstead, the daughter of a cotton manufacturer. He was educated in elementary schools in Burnley and then Burnley Grammar School. He went on to study medicine at Victoria University, Manchester, and carried out his clinical studies at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He qualified in 1943. From 1944 to 1946 he was a captain and general duty officer in the RAMC. He was a surgical tutor and a house surgeon to Alexander Michael Boyd at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was a resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and then a senior registrar and tutor at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Prior to his consultant appointment at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital, he was a consultant in accident surgery at the General Hospital, Northampton. He was an associate member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and a fellow of Manchester Medical Society. In 1949 he married Elizabeth Makinson. They had two sons, Robert and Andrew, and one daughter, Susan. He died on 3 June 2013 at home in Deganwy. He was 94. He was survived by his widow and children, and grandchildren Caroline and Eleanor.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004624
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First Title value, for Searching Golden, Gerald Newton (1900 - 1990)

2024-05-16T03:24:54Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Gerald Golden only revealed the year of his birth on his 90th birthday. He trained at the London Hospital, qualifying in 1923. Soon after he went to Brazil, mainly to work in a mission hospital and for his scientific work during a typhoid epidemic he was awarded MB by the University of Rio de Janeiro in 1929. After returning to the London Hospital he passed FRCS in 1931 and proceeded to work as a general practitioner/surgeon in Haslemere, Surrey. At one time he was orthopaedic and accident surgeon to the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, the Royal Hants County Hospital, Winchester, and orthopaedic surgeon to Haslemere and District Hospitals. During the second world war he was EMS orthopaedic surgeon, being appointed consultant at the end of the war. Gerald was a committed Christian and was always concerned with health problems in developing countries. After retirement to Colyton, Devon, in 1965 and the death of his wife he returned to practice in Nigeria, India and Afghanistan. He was a leading light in World Orthopaedic Concern. He died in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 13 October 1990.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007284
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First Title value, for Searching Horn, Joshua Samuel (1914 - 1975)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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Occupation Accident surgeon Trauma surgeon Anatomist General surgeon
Details Joshua Samuel Horn was born in London of Jewish parents on 14 July 1914. He won a scholarship to University College Hospital, where he had a brilliant career and collected various undergraduate medals and prizes. 'Josh', as he was known, had charm, dedication, and courage. During the hungry 'thirties, and influenced by the struggle against unemployment and fascism, he joined the Socialist Medical Association and the Communist Party, remaining a Marxist all his life. After qualification in 1936 he became lecturer in anatomy at Cambridge, then returned to University College Hospital. He came under the influence of Wilfred Trotter, whom he greatly admired, and took the FRCS when he was only 23 years old. During the blitz he worked as a surgeon in the dockside area of London; then spent four years in the RAMC, moving with the troops of the second front from Normandy to the Rhine and later to West Africa, where he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1948 he was appointed surgeon to the Birmingham Accident Hospital. There his special interests were hand surgery and the repair of nerves. He wrote a number of papers and was a founder member of the Institute of Accident Surgery. At the age of 40 he was struck with multiple sclerosis, which characteristically he bore with great fortitude, but fortunately was able to continue for 15 years a surgical career in Peking. He helped to pioneer the reattachment of severed limbs, and, as an adviser to the Ministry of Health, he founded an accident hospital in Peking and planned modern burns units. He was elected to the executive of the International Society for Burns Injuries. His activities took him far and wide through People's China, learning at first hand the medical and social changes which had followed liberation during the cultural revolution. He wrote about his experiences in a fascinating book, *Away with all pests: an English surgeon on People's China*. Returning to England in 1969, he was appointed lecturer in anatomy, his old love, at the London Hospital. Although his health was deteriorating, he lectured widely on medicine in China, helping many to understand the marriage between traditional and modern medicine and the peasant-doctor movement. He was a fine speaker. He intended to write more on the changing Chinese medical and social scene, and, in 1974, revisited Peking for this purpose. He collapsed in his hotel room from a heart attack, and as he was too ill to move, his room was converted into an intensive care unit for days before his transfer to hospital - an indication of the esteem in which he was held. He was married and had one daughter and one son. He died in Peking on 17 December, 1975, aged 61 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006584
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