I trained in Glasgow
and became a consultant Neuroradiologist at the Institute of Neurological
Sciences, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow in 1979. I
thoroughly enjoyed the clinical challenges, being part of the team caring for
the patient and exploiting the need to optimise imaging techniques to ensure
that an answer was achieved. I relished testing the clinicians to come up with
a reasoned history and to justify their request for imaging! Sadly a dying art
in 2011! In 2009 my own CT neuro-picture book was published with many of the
images in colour! I retired last month and am looking forward to much more
leisurely, but as yet unspecified, activities!
Personal Details
I married Graham in the summer before final year which for me was
1971/2. We had 4 children but sadly our eldest son, Richard, died in 2008.
David is building the M77 extension, Michael will serve you a mean cappuccino
in his café (ifull coffee) at CharingCross if you care to drop in,
and Charlotte
is now in her first year of GP training in Edinburgh. We have 2 super grandchildren, Amy
who is 4 and now skis better than either of us, while Alexander, who is only 9
months, has been to Chile
twice to visit his other grandparents.
From left to right: Roz wife of, and next to,
Michael; Charlotte; Richard; Evelyn; Graham; David; at Graham’s Investiture 2006…note the gong!!!
This is what I used to do in my
day job. Pretty is it not? It’s a CT angiogram and just in case you’ve
forgotten your anatomy it shows the aortic arch, great vessels, carotid and
vertebral arteries!*
*Is this the most artistic self portrait sent in for the Year Book? (Ed. )
