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First Title value, for Searching Ehrlich, Frederick (1932 - 2017)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Specialist in rehabilitative medicine Medico-legal specialist Psychiatrist Geriatrician Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Fred Ehrlich was a professor of rehabilitation, aged and extended care at the University of New South Wales: his career in medicine and academia spanned orthopaedic surgery, psychiatry, geriatrics and rehabilitation. He was born on 23 March 1923 in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now divided between Romania and Ukraine). His father, Alexander Ehrlich, was a businessman; his mother, Klara Ehrlich née Schneider, was the daughter of a court official. He was a distant relative of the Nobel prize-winning physician and scientist Paul Ehrlich. Ehrlich attended primary and Yiddish schools in Czernowitz. A Holocaust survivor, in 1947 he immigrated with his parents to Sydney, Australia, not speaking a word of English. He attended North Sydney Technical High School, where he was *dux*. He went on to study medicine at Sydney University, where he was an exhibitioner, and qualified in 1955. While at Sydney University he was a flight lieutenant in the university air squadron. He spent eight years as a resident and registrar at the Royal Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales, and then a year there as a surgical registrar. For nine years he was a full-time staff surgeon at the Psychiatric Centre, North Ryde, New South Wales. He was also a lecturer in clinical surgery at the University of Sydney. In 1958 he gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and, a year later, of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was subsequently appointed as a professor at the University of New South Wales. Interested in sociology and social medicine, he held a holistic view that medicine should be about helping people and not just treating disease. He advocated a ‘total care’ approach to medicine and encouraged social intervention. He served as president of the Gerontological Society of New South Wales. He finished his medical career as a specialist in the medico-legal field. He was an active member of the Jewish community. He was a founding parent of Masada College, a Jewish co-educational school in Sydney, and served as president from 1967 to 1970. He was on the boards of the North Shore Synagogue, the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, JCA and Mandelbaum House, a college affiliated to the University of Sydney. In 1959 he married Shirley Rose Eastbourne. They had six children – Paul, Rachel, Simon, Adam, Miriam and Avrum – 19 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Fred Ehrlich died on 2 November 2017. He was 85.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009771
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First Title value, for Searching Shepherd, Margaret Mary (1907 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
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Occupation General surgeon Geriatrician Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born Margaret Mary Ferguson in 1907 at Darwen, Lancashire, she was educated at Owen's College Manchester. After qualification she held house appointments and was also lecturer in anatomy and then resident surgical officer at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute. In 1937 she married James Forrest Shepherd of the Indian Medical Service. They worked at various stations in India and during the second world war she was surgical specialist RAMC. She was also honorary surgeon, King George Hospital, Vizagapatam, Madras. After the war in 1947, when her husband became a consultant surgeon in Sutton Coldfield, she continued her interest in orthopaedic surgery with a study on the results of hip surgery and the establishment of a procedure for hip assessment on behalf of the British Orthopaedic Association. This work continued at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Institute of Orthopaedics, London. After her husband's death Margaret joined the department of geriatric medicine at the Norman Day Hospital, Farnham, working as a clinical assistant from 1972 until her death on 3 March 1982.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006937
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First Title value, for Searching Damanski, Marek (1897 - 1980)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon Geriatrician Medical Officer Urologist
Details Marek Damanski was born in Laka, East Poland on 22 May, 1897. He was the only son of a doctor of medicine and attended grammar school in Lwow before entering the University there. After graduating MD in 1923 he worked for two years in general surgery and then eight years in urology at the State General Hospital, Lwow, as well as six months in the urological clinic of the Necker Hospital, Paris. In 1932 he was appointed urologist at a policlinic for the local railway employees and became a member of the International Society of Urology in 1939. He had already been called up before the outbreak of the second world war and his consulting rooms were destroyed in early bombing by which time he was serving with No 6 Military Hospital. Shortly after this he was in Russian occupied territory and later worked in the Ukraine and Siberia where he is said to have suffered terrible privations. After Russia entered the second world war he joined the Polish Corps which subsequently moved through Iran to come under the command of the British Middle East and Central Mediterranean Forces. As a result of this, and fortunately being reunited with his wife in France, he settled in England, initially as medical officer to No 3 Polish Hospital, Penley. In 1949 he was appointed senior medical officer to the Liverpool paraplegic centre at Southport. His dedicated work there resulted in his being promoted to consultant in charge, and it is said that his tirelessness and perfectionism played a large part in raising the standard of management of paraplegics in Britain and abroad. He was intensely interested in clinical research and published more than two dozen papers. As a result of all this he was most fittingly awarded the FRCS ad eundem in 1967. Marek Damanski was a man of true old-world courtesy who endeared himself to colleagues and staff, and whose patients trusted him implicitly. When due for retirement he was deemed irreplaceable for a further three years after which he continued in great demand as a locum geriatrician. He died on 5 June 1980 and was survived by his wife, Irene Rauch, who was a great source of strength to him and a talented portrait painter. Their only daughter, a girl then aged 13, disappeared without trace during the German occupation, but they both maintained a dignified silence about this.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006401
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First Title value, for Searching Cosin, Lionel Zelick (1910 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon Geriatrician
Details Lionel Zelick Cosin, son of Benjamin Cosin, a tobacconist, and his wife Mary, née Magoon, was born in London on 8 November 1910. He was educated at Westminster City School and Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1933. His brother, the radiologist Dr C F Cosin, was senior to him at Guy's. His house posts were at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, and the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway, under the supervision of Arthur Dickson Wright, Hamilton Bailey and W B Gabriel. He passed the FRCS in 1936. On the outbreak of war he was appointed medical superintendent in the Emergency Medical Service at Orsett Hospital, Essex. It was a move which was to change his life. As well as the daily coach convoys bringing the blitz casualties from London he had also to look after some 300 chronic in-patients. On inspection he found that many were suffering from treatable illnesses and more were in need of active rehabilitation. With enthusiasm and reorganization and with emphasis on an acute approach he achieved a high home return rate, so that only one in five patients was required to be in hospital for over six months. In 1948 he moved to Langhorn Hospital, East London, where he pioneered a day care unit for the mentally ill. In 1950 he was invited to become the Director of Geriatrics, a new specialty, at the United Oxford Hospitals and lecturer to the University and Magdalen College. He established his unit at Cowley Road Hospital and, developing the systems from Orsett, he reduced the average hospital stay from 286 to 51 days. He invented the concept of the 'floating bed' to allow respite short stay for patients. His name rests securely on the development of the geriatric day hospital and he planned the building of a new, purpose-built unit in 1957. This was renamed after him on his retirement in 1972. Lionel Cosin was a prolific and lucid writer, publishing over eighty articles, mainly on geriatric topics. He gained international renown, holding visiting professorships and lecturing to some ninety universities throughout the world. He was also a generous supporter of many Jewish charities. He died on 21 March 1994, survived by his wife Pamela, née Keenlyside, whom he had married in 1941 and their two children, Benjamin and Philippa.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007872
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