Richard Doll
b 1912, regius professor of medicine, Oxford
Green College, Oxford, 23/09/94
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No sign of slowing down - Sir Richard Doll tells Hilary Bower about his lifetime of research
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Green College, Oxford, 23/09/94 | |
More than anybody else Richard Doll has stopped doctors pontificating without any evidence. Together with the father of medical statistics, Austin Bradford Hill, he introduced the randomised controlled trial: a method of assessing a treatment or procedure that is one of the most important medical developments of the century. Doll and Hill were also the first to show the connection between cigarette smoking and many serious diseases, particularly lung cancer and heart disease. Links to the BMJ archive No sign of slowing down - Sir Richard Doll tells Hilary Bower about his lifetime of research |