When I met Brian he had just finished a stint as a quiet surrogate patient for 4th year medical student exams at the Western. Tomorrow his script was to be a nervous patient, which he was quite looking forward to. He confided that he found it much more difficult to act as a belligerent patient, … Continue reading A Living Organism | Brian Slawson
Transforming Spaces | Wilma Jack
Wilma is a Senior Research Fellow working within the Breast Unit at the Western. She has a long association with cancer care starting her career in 1973 in the Radiotherapy Unit WGH, now called the Edinburgh Cancer Centre, and from 1988 onwards with the Edinburgh Breast Unit previously at Longmore Hospital in Newington- now Longmore … Continue reading Transforming Spaces | Wilma Jack
Coffee, honey cakes and ICU | David Wright
We met David Wright at his house not that far from the Western General Hospital. A generous welcome included freshly brewed coffee and equally delicious honey cakes baked the evening before. The honey for the cakes is produced by the bees that David and his wife, Bron, keep in their garden. He was slightly worried … Continue reading Coffee, honey cakes and ICU | David Wright
Norman Dott Pioneer Neurosurgeon
Professor Norman McOmish Dott (1897-1973) was born in Edinburgh to art dealer Peter McOmish Dott and his wife, Rebecca, and was the third of five children. Norman showed considerable flair for design and engineering and was apprenticed to the local engineering firm of McTaggart Scott & Co after he left George Heriot’s School. However, a … Continue reading Norman Dott Pioneer Neurosurgeon