Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: John Ward was born in Dundee on Christmas Day, 1935.His second cousin wrote that he felt sorry for him as he would only receive one set of presents each year!Apart from a brief spell in Scotland during the second world war, most of his upbringing was in London: he qualified in medicine from the London Hospital in 1961.For some time he worked with the late Harry Keen at Guy's Hospital, and his MD thesis included studies on the polyol pathway.He later published in The Lancet in 1971 one of the first demonstrations in humans of improved nerve conduction following blood glucose control.John discovered that he had been successful in his MD in an unusual manner: Professor (later Lord) John Butterfield directed him to a refrigerator in the ward kitchen, in which when opened, he found a bottle of champagne with a congratulations card!After 3 years as Senior Registrar at the London Hospital, John was appointed as a Consultant Physician to the Royal Infirmary and Hallamshire Hospitals in Sheffield, where he remained until his retirement in 2000.John was a dedicated, caring and compassionate physician who truly believed in the art of clinical medicine and particularly clinical observation: moreover, he was a passionate supporter of the National Health Service (NHS) and, even after his retirement, he wrote several letters to national newspapers in support of the NHS.In clinical practice, John was dedicated to the care of his patients.Even at weekends when not on call, he would visit the ward to ensure that there were no problems requiring his advice.This ward visit was
Source: Diabetic Medicine
DOI: 10.1111/dme.14127
Author: Andrew J.M. Boulton
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2980454580