THE SURGEONS I first met Mr (as he was then) George Johnston and Mr Terence Kennedy in the old Wards 5 and 6 in the Royal Victoria Hospital (now demolished) 2 when I was a student. They had strikingly different personalities-Mr Kennedy was more than a little daunting but both were constantly stimulating and renowned teachers. The teaching ward rounds revealed surgical cases in the true sense of...

The issues raised by Ian Kennedy in the course of his 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics are also of concern to Great Britain's Patients Association. Ackroyd, as Chairman of the Association, does not however share Kennedy's view that the consumerism model for regulating abuses is appropriate to medical care. She would prefer to have the Health Service Commissioner authorized to investigate...

The purpose of this study was to determine, in Turkey, the patterns and distribution of partial edentulism (PE) according to Kennedy-Applegate classification. This study was carried on patients who applied to the dental university clinics and who were diagnosed as requiring a removable partial denture (RPD), at least for one arch. Total of 319 patients were included in the study (206 females, 1...