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Josephine Barnes Alan Humphrey Barker Victor Meir Dellal Hock Hoo Ee John Rushworth Holden Charles Cotton Kennedy George Krasner George Kenneth Laxton James Brian Bonella Riddell Michael Edward Snell Nualla Briggs (nee Sommerville) by Drife, J. O. is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Josephine Barnes Alan Humphrey Barker Victor Meir Dellal Hock Hoo Ee John Rushworth Holden Charles Cotton Kennedy George Krasner George Kenneth Laxton James Brian Bonella Riddell Michael Edward Snell Nualla Briggs (nee Sommerville) about?
A determined advocate of women's health care, she had Yorkshire blood. Her mother was a gifted organist and her father a Methodist minister, and her stiffest test, at 13, was convincing them that she wanted to be a doctor. At Oxford she gained a blue for hockey and sang in the Bach Choir. She gave up hockey at 50 and choral singing at 86. As a clinical student she decided to become a consultant in a London teaching hospital, which meant breaching the male domination. She prepared by becoming "probably the most examined student in Britain"-a typically modest reference to the MRCP, FRCS, MRCOG, and MD that she had gained by 1941, while training in obstetrics during the blitz. Even so there were "many applications and many refusals" before, at 42, she became the first woman consultant at Charing Cross Hospital. She was proud of being the first FRCOG to give
Who reads Josephine Barnes Alan Humphrey Barker Victor Meir Dellal Hock Hoo Ee John Rushworth Holden Charles Cotton Kennedy George Krasner George Kenneth Laxton James Brian Bonella Riddell Michael Edward Snell Nualla Briggs (nee Sommerville)?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Health Professions.
- Author
- Drife, J. O.
- Publisher
- BMJ Publishing Group; BMJ; London: BMJ Pub. Group, [2000?]- (ISSN 0959-8138)
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Health Professions (Health Sciences)