John Scadding
b 1907, physician, Brompton Hospital, London
Beaconsfield, Bucks, 21/03/95
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Beaconsfield, Bucks, 21/03/95 | |
One of medicine's philosophers, John Scadding has always insisted that doctors should use words with as much precision as they would use a stethoscope or an x ray machine. Even when he was a junior army doctor his reputation as a physician was such that he was summoned in consultation over the treatment of the pneumonia which Winston Churchill had developed while in the Middle East. After the war he returned to the Brompton Hospital, eventually becoming dean of the Institute of Diseases of the Chest there and being recognised as the leader of respiratory physicians not only in this country but world wide. |