Obituary Prof.Dr. Hanna Qawar, FRCS 1944 � 2008

Hanna Kokko

in mathematics who decides to be a film maker as long as I knew that she had been well-taught in science. I am angry when I see graduate students deeply excited about studying the brain lose their joy when their laboratory environment becomes more about “getting the paper in Neuron” than about discovering new knowledge. I am angry when I see graduate students crying over gratuitously hostile or...

Obituary—when somebody close to us dies, part of our future dies with them: John A. Fixsen, MChir, FRCS

It is always difficult to write about individuals who are close to you and who forged you in your formative years. In August 2014, Mr. John A. Fixsen, MChir, FRCS, Consultant Emeritus in Paediatric Orthopaedics at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Emeritus at St Bartholomew? s Hospital, London, died in his sleep. I knew of M...

Bristol Final FRCS Course

The Final FRCS examination is said to be easy to fail but not difficult to pass. The two-week course held annually in Bristol over the last 6 years is designed primarily to aid candidates gain experience of examination conditions which they will meet when they take the examination at one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons. Poor viva voce technique is one of the largest hurdles on the day and has...

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Mrs. Meiklejohn, of St. Paul's, Upper Maze M, Ston January 29th. Her life was spent for the weitare ? many parents could testify to the devotion w i ^ defective children, and She was the first to realise the special _n country. For many years she she opened the first home for such children in defective children, and of was the Principal of this home, and of a home 10 wQmen> another home for dif...