The Osler Lecture was inaugurated in 1967 and is named after Sir William Osler, the great medical humanist and historian. It is normally given by the student who gave the best dissertation in the Diploma in the History of Medicine. Lecturer: Dr John Rees, MB BS MRC Psych DHMSA Lecture title: “Going off the Rails, […]

Lecturer: Professor Deborah Bowman, MA (oxon), PhD (London) – St Georges University of London Lecture title: “The Moral of the Story: A literary look at Medical Ethics” Drinks in the  Parlour after the lecture The Court, Dr Peter Tooley, Dr Derek Adams, Dr Paul Simmons, Dr Roy Palmer, Dr Tina Matthews, Dr John Moore-Gillon, Professor […]

The Hall was open to the public for the Open London event on 21st September 2014. Members of the Society and of the staff were present to guide the visitors and talk about the Society, its history, its current work and  the Hall. There were several stands dealing with aspects of the activities of the Society. […]

On Monday 17th November, the Master and the Clerk visited Dr George Bullmore aged 102. Dr Bullmore, who is the senior Liveryman, was apprenticed to his father Edward Bullmore on 7thOctober 1930, became a Yeoman on 7th October 1934, a Liveryman on 30th July 1937 and qualified LMSSA in March 1938. The Master presented him with […]

The Senior Warden (Roy Palmer) and Past Masters Brian Livesley and Tim Chambers visited the Type 23 Frigate HMS Somerset in Avonmouth for her 20th anniversary of commissioning celebrations. The Society and the vessel have been affiliated since 1996, and each year the Society awards a Prize for Excellence to the rating who is deemed by the […]

At the Election Court held on 13 August 2014, the following were elected for the current year: Master Dr John Moore-Gillon Senior Warden Dr Roy Palmer Junior Warden Dr Derek Adams Revd Guy Treweek, Priest-in-Charge, conducted the Master’s Day Service at the Church of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe on Sunday, 28 September 2014, assisted by the Master’s […]

Speaker: Professor Harold Ellis Lecture title:“Royal Operations” Date: 13 October 2014 Professor Harold Ellis’ is still teaching clinical anatomy at Guy’s Hospital, London. Tina Matthews (President) & Professor Harold Ellis (Speaker) (Left to Right) – Dr Andrew Hilson, Dr Robert Bethel, Professor Rodney Taylor, Mr Nick Wood, Mr Andrew Paris, Dr Tina Matthews, Professor Harold […]

Members of the Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine ran a three day Humanitarian Disaster Assistance Course at the United Nations Training School Ireland (UNTSI) at the Curragh near Dublin from October 7th – 10th, 2014. The course was sponsored by Cooperation and Working Together (CAWT), a partnership between the Health and Social Care Services […]

On 6th October, the 2014 Audrey Few lecture, entitled “Damage control and open abdomen – true paradigm shifts in trauma and emergency surgery” was given by Professor Ari Leppaniemi MD, PhD, DMCC Chief of Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the Meilahti Hospital, University of Helsinki Central Hospital in Finland. Following the lecture Prof […]