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First Title value, for Searching Ghosh, Sachindra Nath (1928 - 1992)

2024-05-12T02:57:00Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner
Details Sachindra Ghosh was born in Calcutta, India, on 20 June 1928, the son of a marine official in the British India Steam Navigation Company. He received his early schooling in Calcutta, attended Calcutta Science College where he obtained a BSc, and graduated MB BS from the National Medical College in 1959. After house surgeon and house physician posts in Calcutta he came to England in 1962 and after initial experience in general practice in Nuneaton decided to follow a surgical career. He had a wide experience as a surgical registrar in general, cardiothoracic and orthopaedic surgery at various centres in the West Midlands and was ultimately appointed as a clinical assistant in accident and emergency surgery at Walsall General Hospital. Ghosh obtained the FRCS Edinburgh in 1969 and the FRCS in 1971. In 1974 he married, and he and his wife, Mallika, who was also a doctor, had a son, Sandip. Ghosh was keenly interested in football, gardening, cooking and photography. He was devoted to his family and loved sports cars and travelling. He died of cancer on 28 July 1992.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007951
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First Title value, for Searching Haq, Zafar Ul (1927 - 1984)

2024-05-12T02:57:00Z

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 Ellis, Maurice (1905 - 1977)

2024-05-12T02:57:00Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner
Details Maurice Ellis, the son of a motor engineer, who founded a milk business which later became Associated Dairies, was born on 16 September 1905 in Leeds and was educated at Rydal School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Leeds University School of Medicine. After qualifying in 1930 he was appointed to house posts at Leeds General Infirmary and at Barnsley. In 1933 having decided to join the Colonial Medical Service, he took the London University DTM&H and sailed for Nigeria. During his first tour of service, spent mainly in sleeping sickness control in Northern Nigeria, he became proficient in the Hausa language. Part of the second and the whole of the third tour were spent in general surgical work at Lagos. Ill health caused an early retirement from the Colonial Medical Service in 1945. After his return to the United Kingdom he worked for a year and a half in general practice, in Gainsborough. In 1948 he took the FRCS and after a surgical post at Dewsbury was transferred back to his own teaching hospital. With the inception of the National Health Service and the increased demand for casualty services he was appointed to work full-time in the casualty department. From 1949 he was senior registrar and in 1952 was made consultant. He retired in 1969. In 1967 Ellis had become founder President of the Casualty Surgeons Association, and after his retirement he campaigned vigorously for the improvement of casualty work throughout Britain. He was especially interested in tetanus and was co-founder of the tetanus unit at Leeds. He is remembered for his hard work, administrative ability, original thought, and love of teaching. Hundreds of clinical students and junior doctors referred to him affectionately as Father Ellis. In 1962 he published his *Casualty officers' handbook*, which ran to three editions in his lifetime and continued to be widely read thereafter. In 1933 he married Irene Thornley, surgical ward sister at the Leeds General Infirmary. They had one son who qualified in medicine. Ellis died on 13 October 1977, after having suffered for some years from progressive brain-stem ischaemia.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006498
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First Title value, for Searching Page, Iven Alastair (1914 - 1971)

2024-05-12T02:57:00Z

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)

2024-05-12T02:57:00Z

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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First Title value, for Searching Gibbons, John Robert Pelham (1926 - 1999)

2024-05-12T02:57:00Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner Military surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details John Gibbons was born in Moseley, Warwickshire, on 26 November 1926. His father, Leonard Norman Gibbons, who had been severely gassed in the trenches during the First World War, later became legal adviser to the Birmingham Gas Board. His mother was Gladys Elizabeth née Smith, a secretary. John was educated at Moseley Grammar School and Pates' School, Cheltenham, before enlisting in the ranks of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1944. He was then commissioned in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and, while on active service with them in Palestine, he had his first experience of battlefield casualties. He later transferred to the Guards Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, leaving Palestine for Egypt by road on the last day of the British Mandate on 14 May 1948. On completing his service, he went to Leeds Medical School, where he gained prizes in anaesthesia and clinical medicine and won the Brotherton scholarship, qualifying in 1954. He then worked as a registrar at Leeds General Hospital and also helped his brothers-in-law run their general practice. He obtained the FRCS diploma in 1960 and later, when senior registrar at the National Heart Hospital, he was one of the team who carried out the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom. He was appointed locum senior lecturer and consultant at King's College Hospital, following which he became a consultant in accident and emergency medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. This led on to his definitive appointment as surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. He managed to combine his medical career with territorial services in the Army, from 1948 to the day of his death. In Northern Ireland he was honorary surgeon to the Army and medical officer of the 10th Battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment. He also served with the Royal Tank Regiment, the Warwickshire Yeomanry, Leeds Rifles and the Parachute Regiment, where in the late 1960's he commanded a company until it was decided he should be transferred to the RAMC. He was president of the Northern Ireland branch of the Parachute Regiment Association. During the Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s, when Britain was supporting Iraq, Gibbons was asked to go to Basra to help treat the wounded and organise the evacuation of some casualties to British hospitals. He was subsequently decorated by Iraq for his work during the conflict. He served as consultant thoracic surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast between 1977 and 1993, becoming the pre-eminent British authority on crush, blast and missile wounds of the chest. This led to the award of a Hunterian Professorship in 1984. He published widely on chest injuries and oesophageal surgery, enjoyed teaching his juniors and acknowledged the influence of Digby Chamberlain and John Goligher in both his training and in his surgical practice. In his younger days, John had played rugby football, gaining his university colours at Headingley, and also playing for Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derby, as well as the Territorial Army. He was also interested in shooting, travelling, railways, good food and wine. In 1952 he married Marie-Jeanne Brookes, a teacher, and they had four sons and two daughters, two of the sons being doctors.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008620
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