Obituaries

Our profession has lost a man as famous for his dinner parties as for his ward rounds, as respected for his teaching as for his clinical skills, as happy...

(Contributed by Professor David Lawson) John Forsyth Davidson, an Aberdonian born and bred, was educated in Robert Gordon’s College and Aberdeen University from where he graduated MB ChB...

(Contributed by Bruce Davis) Harold Davis was born in Newcastle on 3 September 1920, the son of Dr Clyde and Vera Davis and the brother of (Dr) Neville...

Dr Sivakami Devi was consultant physician at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, a public hospital in Singapore.

The death, aged 92, of Sir Richard Doll on July 24th, 2005 robbed the world of one of its greatest benefactors and the medical profession of one of its...

Dr Alastair Donald was the archetypal General Practitioner.

(Contributed by James Friend) Distinctions President, Scottish Thoracic Society, 1980–2 President, British Thoracic Society, 1984 Cullen Prize of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1986 British Thoracic Society Medal, 2001 ...

(Contributed by Dr Hugh Saxton) John Dow, one of the pioneers of vascular and cardiac radiology in Britain in the mid twentieth Century, died on November 1st 2007....

(Contributed by James Downie) Dr Campbell George Balfour Downie BSc MB ChB FRCP (Edin) FRCP (London) DTM&H passed away peacefully on 24th October 2009. A popular man in medical,...

Cecil Mary Drillien (Mrs Woolf), a retired paediatrician died in North Berwick, Scotland 15 April 2006, the day after one of her colleagues from the same department in Dundee,...

(Information generously supplied by Dr Helen P.

Leslie Duncan was a charismatic physician and inspirational teacher.