John Harold Derek Millar
BMJ 2005; 330 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.330.7499.1089-e (Published 05 May 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;330:1089
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John Harold Derek Millar
Consultant physician Scunthorpe and Grimsby hospitals 1948-78 (b Edinburgh 1914; q Edinburgh 1936; MBE, DL, MD, FRCP Ed), d 25 October 2004.
Derek Millar went to school and university in Edinburgh and volunteered at the outbreak of war for the RAMC. He was a prisoner of war for two years and led a mass escape from the camp in northern Italy, receiving the military MBE for his achievement. He worked as sole physician at Scunthorpe War Memorial Hospital, with sessions at Grimsby Hospital. He established a specialised medical unit in that time with 80 beds and a CCU, and he encouraged postgraduate education and was the first medical tutor at the Post Graduate Medical Centre in the early 1970s. Following retirement from the NHS he worked for five years at the Rapier Barracks, Kirton Lindsay.
He also maintained a keen interest in fishing and golf, playing competitively until months before his death. He had tremendous drive and energy and was very self critical.
He leaves a wife, Isobel; a son and daughter, both doctors; and six grandchildren. [Lois Sproat, Lenox Millar]