Published 25 July 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a960
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a960

Obituaries

Richard Louis Page

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Richard Page qualified at the Middlesex Hospital in 1967. After completing house jobs at the Middlesex, Hammersmith, and Brompton Hospitals, he returned to the Middlesex as a medical registrar. He completed his training in Nottingham as a MRC research fellow, and in East Anglia as a senior registrar, before taking up his consultant appointment in 1979 in Leeds, where he worked at St James’s University Hospital, Killingbeck Hospital, and Leeds Chest Clinic.

As chairman of the British Thoracic Society’s professional standards committee and a member of the executive between 1999 and 2002, he was responsible for setting up the BTS interdepartmental peer review scheme. This has been an important initiative in the development of respiratory services within the United Kingdom.

He chose to work on past the age of 65, so it was tragic that he developed small cell lung cancer. As a chest physician he knew all the implications . . . [Full text of this article]

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