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Readers of the print edition may have missed this splendid obituary of Frank Pantridge, a difficult and complex character who invented the portable defibrillator.
If you enjoy obits, read this. You'll enjoy it.
I don't know who Alun Evans, author of the obituary for
Frank Pantridge is, but he can't know much abour
medicine in Belfast. He twice refers to"George Bull."
The professor of medicine there was, of course,
Graham Bull. Don't you have any editors at the BMJ?
The best-written obit the BMJ has ever published
Readers of the print edition may have missed this splendid obituary of Frank Pantridge, a difficult and complex character who invented the portable defibrillator.
If you enjoy obits, read this. You'll enjoy it.
I wrote an obit of Pantridge for the Independent (hard to find online, but unearthable in http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050124/ai_n9697549
Alun Evans's obit is better.
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