Part One At the start of the interview Gordon Jackson Rees, director of paediatric anaesthesia at the University of Liverpool, talks about his family background, his childhood and his education at Oswestry School. He decided to pursue a career in medicine and commenced his studies in Liverpool in 1937. Dr Rees acknowledges the influence of various teachers and clinicians, including the anatomist WH Wood, Henry Cohen (then professor of medicine), Emyr Wyn Jones working in outpatients, and the young surgeon Cosbie Ross. He reflects on the experience of clinical studies during the war, and meeting his future wife whom he married in January 1943. The interview then moves on to Dr Rees' post-qualification 6-month house job on Cosbie Ross' firm in Liverpool, during which he came into contact with the eminent physician Ernest Chamberlain, and his war-time service in the RAF. He served as a GP to airmen in the UK for six months, and for 18 months in West Africa. Part One ends with discussion of Dr Rees' decision, mainly for economic reasons, to specialise in anaesthesia on returning to England in 1945, his initial training under Group Captain Soper at RAF Holton, under Robert Macintosh and WW Mushin at Oxford, and gaining his DA in late 1946.
Oswestry School; Liverpool University Medical School; WH Wood; Henry Cohen; Emyr Wyn Jones; Cosbie Ross; Ernest Chamberlain; wartime medical service; RAF Holton; RAF Cosford; anaesthetist training in the RAF; Cecil Gray; curare; muscle relaxants
Anaesthesia, Paediatrics,
vid-179, MSVA_139
Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/000045
Rees, Gordon JacksonBlythe, Max
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Original artefact: 1997 RADAR resource: 2017
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