Sir Ivan Whiteside Magill, KCVO, DSc, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCS, FFARCS (Hon), FFARCSI (Hon), DA.

Sir Ivan Magill KCVO, DSc, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCS, FFARCS (Hon), FFARCSI (Hon), DA, (1888-1986)

Ivan Whiteside Magill was born in Northern Ireland, and graduated from Queen’s University Belfast Medical School just before the Great War. In his lifetime anaesthetics developed from an adjunct of surgery to a recognised medical speciality. His personal contributions included greatly improving the apparatus and specific techniques, and most prominently, his endeavour to raise the status of the...

The Hon. Lady Darwin

Anaesthetics. With special reference to Ivan Magill.

Ivan Whiteside Magill, from Larne, is one of our most illustrious 'wild geese' (Fig 1). In 1912 as a medical student he was issued with a certificate confirming that he had, as part of his training, administered one anaesthetic (Fig 2). At that time, this was the only statutory requirement of training in anaesthesia for the qualifying examination of MB, BCh, BAO. The certificate was signed by R...

Frederick L. Hoffman, LLD (Hon), 1865–1946

This biographical sketch on Frederick L. Hoffman corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: A Plan for a More Effective Federal and State Health Administration, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-1000-x. The article can also be accessed on the American Journal of Public Health web site at (http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/9/3/161-a).

TRUDIE YOUNG Tissue Viability Nurse (Hon)

The field of tissue viability is not alone in finding that the current financial pressures are having an impact on service delivery. Resources are becoming scarce and there is the inevitable drive to provide a high standard of care with an ever-diminishing budget. This heralds the way for reflection on current practice and an opportunity of finding new and innovative ways of working that will e...