Published 4 November 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4462
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4462

Obituaries

Walter Samuel Davis

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Although born in Bray, Walter Samuel Davis spent his early years in, Co Wexford and later in Hillsborough, Co Down when his family moved north. After graduating, he worked for his preregistration year in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Then as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he served in Libya and Palestine.

After his army service he trained in anaesthetics in Liverpool. He was appointed as the first consultant anaesthetist to Tyrone County Hospital, Omagh, in 1950. There, over the next two decades, he worked to develop the modern anaesthetic service required for patients’ benefit within the newly established NHS. He was a dedicated doctor, who worked without junior anaesthetic staff and became very well respected by all who knew him.

When he retired he continued to live in Omagh with his wife, Kitty, who had worked as a psychiatrist. He was devoted to his family. He . . . [Full text of this article]

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