Affiliation:
1. (Retired) St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK
Abstract
Richard Gordon (1921–2017) was a prolific writer of both humorous fiction and historical reviews. He trained in medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts) in London and specialised in anaesthesia working at Hill End Hospital, St Albans (where a large proportion of Barts work took place to avoid the impact of the Blitz during the Second World War) and at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford with Robert Macintosh. He published multiple papers and a book on trichlorethylene anaesthesia and edited a textbook of anaesthesia for medical students which ran for 10 editions. His gift for writing and his prominent public persona placed him in a unique position to highlight the importance of the newly emerging speciality of anaesthesia. He did the exact opposite of this and instead created a representation of an uninterested spectator to surgical activity, a representation which still persists in some quarters today.
Subject
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
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