Dr John Annear

doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7346.1152

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Daniel C Riordan, specialist registrar in psychiatry

St George's Hospital, London

Dr Annear was a sage-like, enigmatic, paternalistic, “old school” eccentric whose outpatients clinics stretched into the very late evening. Patients would wait to see him for their appointments, often bringing soup or tea and bedding down until it was their turn. This was not some outback post in the Third World, this was inner city London. Although, the length of outpatients clinics and the fluidity in boundaries were frustrating at times, they were a place of great …