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First Title value, for Searching Jansz, Aubrey William (1926 - 2011)

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by Ken Brearley
Publication Date 2012-03-29 2016-11-17
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Aubrey Jansz, the youngest of three children, was born in Sri Lanka; his father was a bookstore manager and his mother a nurse. He initially attended Royal College, completing his secondary schooling at Alexandra College from where he won the prestigious Rustomjee Jamshediji Jeejeeboy Scholarship to study Medicine at Colombo University, graduating in 1948. Having completed Internship in Sri Lanka, Aubrey was then appointed Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Colombo and it was here that he was stimulated and encouraged to pursue surgery. Having obtained his First Part FRCS, he then travelled to UK to study and sit the Second Part FRCS, working at The Seaman's Hospital, Croydon General and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. His son, Martin, took Aubrey to visit The Seaman's Hospital in Greenwich some years ago, as he had a great fondness for it. Evidently he had been able to see the 'Cutty Sark' from his window and, more importantly, it was here that he learned so much from surgical mentors of many nationalities that he was able to be a 'good surgeon'. From earliest childhood, Aubrey had indicated that he wanted to help people and be challenged; hence his becoming a doctor and subsequently a surgeon was no surprise. In 1962, Aubrey, his wife Patricia and daughter Andrea migrated to Melbourne. Aubrey's first position in Melbourne was at the Prince Henry's Hospital where he took up a post as an Honorary Clinical Assistant Surgeon to the Outpatient's Department. This position kept him in touch with clinical surgery, but there were no operating rights as was the practice of that era. It was here that he met Ken Brearley (FRACS), the Acting Honorary Surgeon to Outpatients. At about the same time in 1963, Aubrey joined three other doctors in a practice in Melville Road, Pascoe Vale South; it was fairly common then for surgeons to work as 'GP-surgeons' in a general practice. In 1964 Aubrey was lured 'across the Yarra' by Ken, to take up a position at Preston and Northcote Community Hospital (PANCH) where the outpatient numbers there were building rapidly and Aubrey was appointed as a Clinical Assistant Surgeon to Ken's Unit. In those days the work was honorary, but after some years payment was introduced, courtesy of the Whitlam Government. And so it was that Aubrey commenced his long and rewarding career in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Initially, whilst still at the Melville Road GP practice, Aubrey was operating at Sacred Heart, Vaucluse and PANCH hospitals, but soon after commencing at PANCH, he was appointed as an Assistant Surgeon in Ken's Unit which gave him operating rights and responsibilities. By 1975, his surgical practice was secure and he ceased GP work, however the legacy of his time in general practice lived on. In 1986, following the untimely passing of John Fethers, Aubrey was appointed Head of the Surgical 3 Unit where he became interested in Upper GI endoscopy and evidently introduced the first gastroscope to PANCH. His surgery was of a high standard and the care of his patients was exemplary. Aubrey possessed a quiet, pleasant and respectful personality which rendered him most popular with staff, colleagues and patients, added to which he also had a well-developed sense of humour. Ken remembers being told by Aubrey that he had once operated on a patient, a young girl with peritonitis from a ruptured appendix. On receiving the account, probably in the order of $200 in those days, the girl's father told him the fee was too high and refused to pay. Aubrey then suggested he should pay whatever he felt his daughter's life was worth; he duly received a cheque for $50! Inquisitiveness was perhaps something Aubrey inherited from his bookstore manager father. He delighted in books and found nothing more pleasant than spending half a day browsing around small bookshops in and around Melbourne, from where he would emerge with one or two extraordinary volumes. He later became PANCH Medical Librarian, a position he greatly enjoyed. Palliative Care and philosophical matters of life and death were things that had always interested Aubrey, and he was greatly impressed and influenced by the inspirational Helen Kübler-Ross who had given a number of lectures in Melbourne. His inquiring mind and reading on a broad range of subjects resulted in Aubrey challenging, in all manner of ways, colleagues, students and family alike, urging them to solve puzzles and to question statements made by others. This made him a great teacher for most of his life, combining common sense, humility and whimsy. In a way, the lessons were more about life and surgical attitudes than strict clinical material. Not surprisingly, Aubrey was held in high regard by all students attached to his Unit, as well as at St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School where he continued to take 'Lumps and Bumps' sessions for a good many years after he retired from PANCH and active surgery in 1992. One of the important hints he passed on was that: 'It is important to buy two copies of any special book, so that when a volume is lent to a colleague, you are thus assured of retaining a copy when this 'lent' book inevitably fails to return!' Another special attribute was the care and attention, surgical and emotional, that he gave to his patients at all times, both in the Public and Private sectors. Years after retiring, Aubrey's patients continue to ask after his health and comment on his interest in them as people, rather than them being 'just another case.' What greater legacy could one have? On one occasion Aubrey challenged his colleagues by enquiring: 'How many of you have had occasion to visit your patient in their home?' - his reason being - that to visit someone in their home really grounds the relationship and gives all kinds of insight into their lives. Aubrey Jansz made a wonderful contribution to the surgical care of the northern suburbs of Melbourne and to the much broader education of his colleagues and medical students at PANCH. He was much loved, respected and is fondly remembered by all as a gentle, compassionate and giving man. Moreover, he was a devoted family man who would frequently tell us of the progress of his children, Andrea and Martin, who certainly lived up to all the expectations held by Aubrey and his loving wife of 56 years - Patricia.
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Alison George Selborne (1915 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Alison George Selborne Bailey, known as 'Joe', was larger than life. He was born on 19 July 1915, the son of George Frederick Selborne Bailey, a general practitioner and Mabel Yardley Guard, a midwife. He was educated at Radley, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he spent much of his time rowing. He was captain of boats at both institutions. He went to St Bartholomew's for his clinical training, where he was considerably influenced by James Paterson Ross, Harold Wilson, Geoffrey Keynes and later by Harold Gillies and Archibald McIndoe. It was while he was a student at Bart's that he developed Crohn's disease, and was successfully operated on by Michael Harmer - the story of which was amusingly recounted in the *Lancet* in 1986. He followed his father into general practice. He occasionally made his rounds on horseback, and became famous for his skill in manipulation. He continued to coach crews from Radley, Cambridge and Oxford. He was honorary medical officer to the Royal Windsor Racecourse for more than 20 years, as well as several local hunts. His Rolls was always parked under the same oak tree at Henley. He married Christine Marguerite Delfosse, a trainee architect, in 1947. They had four children, Alison, Margaret, George and William. A gourmet, wit, enthusiast and good companion, he was co-opted to the Council in 1986 and made FRCS by election in 1988. He died on 8 November 1997.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008459
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First Title value, for Searching Beasley, Jack Hesketh (1899 - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Jack Hesketh Beasley was born in Toronto, Canada on 31 March 1899. He qualified in Canada and came to England, obtaining the FRCS while at the London Hospital. He practised in Blackpool as a surgeon until 1939 when he joined the RAMC and went to France as a surgical specialist with No 4 General Hospital. After the fall of France he was sent to Egypt and retired at the end of the war with the rank of Major. Following demobilisation he entered general practice, at first in Tring and later in Thundersley, Essex. He was an avid reader and historian and also spoke several languages. His grandfather was Colonel Hesketh who was reputed to have fired the last shot in the Crimean War and whose uniform is in the museum in Toronto, Canada. He died in March 1978, aged 79.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006288
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First Title value, for Searching Riley, Peter William Stewart (1910 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Peter William Riley was born in Dunedin in 1910, the son of Professor F Radcliffe Riley, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He was among the first day pupils at John McGlashan College when it opened in 1918 and was a prefect and a member of the school cricket and rugby teams. He entered the Otago Medical School and graduated in 1934. He was house surgeon at Dunedin Hospital. With a postgraduate scholarship he studied in Melbourne and London, becoming FRCS and MRCOG. He returned to Dunedin as resident surgical officer in the late 1930s. During the war years Riley served with the 3rd New Zealand Division in the Solomon Islands with the rank of captain. On returning to Dunedin he decided to enter general practice, initially in Dunedin and after 1946 at Lauder in Central Otago. He worked for the Vincent Hospital Board covering a large, sparsely populated area. He was superintendent at Ranfurly Hospital for a period. In 1954 he returned to Dunedin and worked in general practice until 1980. He was a quiet, self-effacing man who always did his best for his patients. He was a keen fly fisherman with a love of the Lake Hawera area where for a time his father owned Timaru Creek Station. He was proud of his association with McGlashan College. His wife, Kathleen, died four years before him. He died on 13 April 1994, survived by three sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008273
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