First Title value, for Searching Shaeena, Petrous Roufa (1935 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-16 2014-06-06
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Occupation General practitioner Police surgeon
Details Petrous Roufa 'Peter' Shaeena was a general practitioner in Coventry and a police surgeon. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq, on 13 October 1935, the son of Roufa Shaeena, professor of woodcraft and cabinet making at Baghdad Technical College and a lecturer at the Engineering College, Baghdad, and Sabiha Shaeena née Jacob, a housewife. One uncle was a doctor and several of his cousins became doctors and pharmacists. He was educated at an elementary Catholic school, an intermediate school in Rasafa, and then at Al-Markazia Secondary School, where he gained his baccalaureate with distinction. He then studied medicine in Baghdad, gaining his MB ChB in 1959, as one of the top six graduates. He held junior posts in Iraq, at the Children's and Republic teaching hospitals in Baghdad and at Kut Hospital. He then went to the UK. He held senior house officer posts at Albert Dock Hospital, London, Harold Wood Hospital, London, Leicester Royal Infirmary and Coventry and Warwick Hospital. He then became a registrar at St Cross Hospital, Rugby, in orthopaedics and general surgery, and was subsequently a registrar at Coventry and Warwick Hospital in orthopaedics. In 1973 he became a general practitioner in Coventry and a clinical forensic examiner for the West Midlands police. He resigned from the NHS in 1990, in protest at the imposition of new contracts by the Government, which he felt were not in the interests of patients or doctors. He continued with his police work until January 1999, when he stopped working due to ill health. He officially retired in April 1999. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sports, including cycling, walking, swimming and ballroom dancing. He was also interested in drawing and painting, including watercolours and oils, and car mechanics. He owned several cars. In 1968 he married Madeline Rita, a radiographer, whom he had met at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. They had one son, James William Edward. Peter Shaeena died on 23 April 2011, at the age of 75, from long-standing complications associated with diabetes.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001591
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First Title value, for Searching Churcher, Duncan Gillard (1894 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation General practitioner Physician Police surgeon
Details Duncan Gillard Churcher was born at Dunoon, Scotland, on 4 October 1894, one of six children of Dr Thomas Churcher, a medical missionary, and Margaret, née Robertson, an Edinburgh trained nurse. He was educated at the City of London School and obtained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital which he represented at rugger during his student days as well as playing for the Surrey team. He qualified a year early with MRCS, LRCP in 1917 in order to serve with the Royal Navy, hunting submarines off the coast of Ireland. At the end of the war he returned to St Thomas's Hospital and passed both the final MB BS and the FRCS in 1920. Two years later he passed the London MD and was appointed surgical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital, a post normally reserved for those expecting a consultant appointment there. Hitherto his education had been funded by scholarships but he was unable to continue in an honorary capacity and accepted an appointment as inspector in the Sudan Medical Service for several years before returning to general practice in England, initially at Tarporley and later at Eastbourne. He wanted to join the surgical staff at Princess Alice Hospital but as no surgical vacancy was expected for some years he applied for a post as physician and served on the consultant staff in that capacity from 1926 to 1959. In addition he served as doctor to the Eastbourne lifeboat and as police surgeon; he also looked after the royal household when King George V convalesced at Eastbourne. After retiring from his post as consultant physician at the age of 65 he returned to general practice and continued as police surgeon until 1975. His relaxation came from the sea and he spent many hours on the Eastbourne lifeboat. In 1940 the SS *Barnhill* was bombed and set on fire in the English Channel. Although it was thought that all survivors had been taken off, the ship's bell was heard and the lifeboat was launched once again, Churcher leapt on to the ship and found the severely injured captain ringing the bell with his teeth. After his rescue the man made a good recovery returning to service at sea. He died on 13 July 1983, survived by his wife Nancy, a medical practitioner, and by five children, two being consultants, one a general practitioner and one a nurse.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007150
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