Dame Sheila Sherlock discusses with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme her entry into medicine, undergraduate studies and junior appointments in Edinburgh, and the transfer to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith in 1942, to work with Professor John McMichael on liver biopsy studies that were to widen into career-long interests in liver and biliary disease. Dame Sheila outlines how this career advanced essentially at 'the Hammersmith', with reference to occasional visitorships at other centres of clinical research. The impact of unprecedented wartime epidemics of hepatitis due to yellow fever vaccine and blood transfusion transmission of the disease is then considered, followed by references to studies of a range of liver and biliary conditions in the post-war years, work establishing her reputation in clinical research. Also reviewed is the founding in 1958 of the International Society for the Study of the Liver, its subsequent significance and the contributions made by Dame Sheila to its development. The later stages of the interview draw on the subject's views of current medical training in the UK and changes that have overtaken the medical profession in the last half-century. There are also reflections, in the course of the interview, on being a woman in medicine.
Liver and biliary disease, wartime hepatitis epidemics, modern medical training, Royal College of Physicians, John McMichael.
Gastroenterology,
vid-290, MSVA_020
Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/000440
Sherlock, SheilaWolstenholme, Gordon
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Original artefact: 1987 RADAR resource: 2017
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