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

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-08-12
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799
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
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Norris, Donald Craig (1892 - 1968)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378173378173
Occupation Lawyer Medical Officer Medico-legal specialist
Details Donald Craig Norris was born in London on 23 September 1892 and was educated at Aske's Hatcham School, the London Hospital, and the University of Paris. In the first world war he served as a stretcher bearer in the French Army and also in the Servian Red Cross during the typhus epidemic in 1915 for which he was awarded the Order of St Sava. He came home to qualify with the Conjoint Diploma in 1916, and then joined the RAMC and saw service in India, Mesopotamia, East Africa and France. After the war he returned to the London Hospital and took the FRCS in 1921 and the London MB BS in 1922, with honours in surgery and forensic medicine. For two years he was resident medical officer at Poplar Hospital for Accidents where he became involved in medico-legal work which ultimately became his special interest in preference to clinical surgery. He took the MD degree in 1924, and joined a city partnership. He later became medical officer to the Bank of England, chief medical officer of the Metropolitan Water Board and Lea Conservancy Board, and medical officer to various insurance companies. In 1936 he qualified as barrister-at-law at the Inner Temple. Norris was a man of wide interests including rehabilitation and industrial welfare, and was president of the Assurance Medical Society and of the Hunterian Society. His medico-legal interests led to his becoming associate editor of the Medico-Legal Journal. In 1923 he married Dr Helene Righthouse, who died after a long illness in 1958. When he died in the London Hospital on 17 January 1968 he was survived by his son who was also a doctor.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005990
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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