A Lecture on JAMES MACKENZIE AND HIS MESSAGE

Atomic data: James Mackenzie Lecture 2015.

When Sir James Mackenzie was moving back to Scotland from London in 1918 to set up the Institute for Clinical Research in St Andrews he said that he wanted ‘To do for medicine what the Atomic Theory had done for chemistry’.1 He was referring to the fact that Sir Ernest Rutherford had ‘split the atom’ the year before and ushered in a new scientific age through nuclear fission. Mackenzie saw an a...

James Mackenzie Lecture 1992. The Indians' revenge.

Introduction I FEEL highly honoured to give this James Mackenzie lecture at the conclusion of the Royal College of General Practitioners' 40th anniversary year and, like my predecessors, have found that one of the pleasures of its preparation has been rereading the biographies of Sir James Mackenziel and a few of his many publications. This man of humble Scottish origins, after many years of ge...

James Mackenzie lecture 1987. Clinical medicine and the health divide.

MY mother-in-law and father-in-law live happily together in Summerseat Lane, Holcombe Brook, near Bury in Lancashire. The address of the speaker's mother-in-law must surely be the most inauspicious piece of information with which any Mackenzie lecturer has ever begun. But you will see the relevance when I tell you that I set out this year on a bitingly cold January day from Summerseat Lane whic...

James Mackenzie Lecture 2011: multimorbidity, goal-oriented care, and equity.

James Mackenzie Lecture 2013: the Tao of family medicine.

General practice faces the challenges of an increase in the prevalence of long-term conditions (LTCs) and multimorbidity, coupled with increasing demand and the need for more collaborative partnerships with patients. To address these challenges, I believe we need a fundamental change in our definitions of health and health care, the way we 'do' general practice, and a transformation in our rela...