Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories

Derek Hockaday interviews Martin Vessey, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, 4 June 2014 Topics discussed include: (00:00:15) how MV came to Oxford; (00:01:36) John Honour; (00:03:46) choosing to focus on epidemiology and statistics, learning about statistics and computing post medical qualification and return to clinical house appointments; (00:07:28) meeting Richard Doll; (00:10:14) comparing Oxford and London computing facilities; (00.11:39) MD thesis, United States trip and return to Oxford, (00:14:39) work under direction of Richard Doll at Medical Research Council statistical research unit and effect on direction of career; (00:18:26) MRC and World Health Organisation; (00:19:49) fertilisation and contraceptive work; (00:23:42) studies relating to the etiology of cervical cancer; (00:26:58) research into menopause and investigation of hormone replacement; (00:31:22) differences in different generations of contraceptive pills; (00:36:34) social and community medicine in relation to epidemiology; (00:42:02) interactions with and teaching medical students; (00:48:57) attending medical and surgical grand rounds; (00:50:17) research, papers and breast cancer screening; (00:55:51) Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution; (00:58:50) Rosemary Rue; (01:02:04) travelling for conferences; (01:04:10) supervising DPhil students; (01:09:20) final thoughts on career; (01:11:53) women in epidemiology and medicine.

Derek Hockaday interviews Mike Dunnill, researcher, pathologist and former Director of Clinical Studies,10 February 2012. Topics discussed include: (00:00:10) first coming to Oxford from Bristol in 1956, Department of Pathology facilities; (00:04:00) becoming interested in medical education, George Pickering's committee for Medical School at Nottingham; (00:05:18) becoming Director of Clinical Studies in 1967; (00:06:15) report outlining changes to Honours schools coinciding with the Royal Commission on Medical Education,1969; (00:11:27) lunchtime post-mortem demonstrations; (00:15:21) the [Richard] Doll committee; (00:19:46) graduate assistants work in 1950s in Oxford; (00:21:10) staff on the Pathology course; (00:25:16) the Nuffield Committee; (00:26:38) increasing student numbers for clinical school; (00:28:10) George Pickering.

Derek Hockaday interviews Ann Taylor, researcher and physiologist, 20 January 2016. Topics discussed include: (00:01:25) family connection to Oxford, teenage years in Oxford High school for girls, entry into Somerville and old quota system; (00:02:57) being under the care of Dorothy Hodgkin in the medical school; (00:04:32) Janet Vaughn; (00:05:20) thoughts on schools year, practical work and courses; (00:11:00) working at the Pickering unit, comparing Witts and Pickering; (00:12:38) role post-research; (00:16:10) appointed first medical tutor and lecturer at St. Anne's college, work with H.B Parry in the Nuffield Institute; (00:21:15) work at Stanford, America, thoughts on American healthcare system, work under Roy Maffly on cell biology (effects of antimitotic drugs); (00:24:10) submitting research paper to the Congress of Nephrology, grant application having to be under Roy Maffly's name; (00:28:26) moving to Cornell University Medical School, department of physiology, and work on microtubules; (00:31:57) returning to Oxford, lectureship in physiology department joint appointment allocation with St Edmund Hall, tutoring and lecturing; (00:35:40) running the renal physiology course; (00:239:12) memories of colleagues in the department of physiology; (00:41:38) thoughts on Oxford Medical system; (00:45:25) family at time of clinical course, support with children; (00:48:03) being the first woman fellow at St Edmund Hall in 1980; (00:52:25) relationship between clinical and pre-clinical departments, surgeons; (00:56:51) ward sisters and nurses.

Derek Hockaday interviews David Tibbs, vascular surgeon, 7 February 2011. Mostly recalling the creation of the John Radcliffe Hospital. Topics discussed include: (00:00:05) coming to the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1960, division over the Radcliffe and idea of new site; (00:02:37) Medical Staff Council, (00:03:49) early planning team for the new site, 1963, with John Oddie and John Badenoch; (00:09:35) looking for architects for the John Radcliffe hospital; (00:13:08) the order of building; (00:15:25) travelling to Scandinavia with architects; (00:19:09) Rosemary Rue, John Oddie; (00:21:37) talking through the first meeting of the planning team, Sep 1963; (00:27:14) reasons for and against the new site; (00:29:53) main move to the John Radcliffe in 1980-1981, disappointments and positives; (00:38:50) building of phase 2 of the John Radcliffe, interior arrangements and medical and unit facilities; (00:47:10) surgical view of George Pickering; (00:51:45) Judith Hockaday at the John Radcliffe. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:10:26-00:10:33; 00:11:08-00:11:21; 00:25:35-00:27:14; 00:34:36-00:38:16; 00:49:22-00:51:22; 00:52:58-00:55:24 and 01:01:10-01:01:36.

Susan Burge interviews Terence Ryan, consultant dermatologist and emeritus professor of dermatology, 18 November 2020. Topics discussed include: (00:00:25) reasons for becoming a doctor, school days during Second World War; (00:03:10) coming to Oxford University; (00:04:20) entrance paper, first impressions of Oxford, Worcester College and medical school as a student; (00:07:05) clinical studies 1953, role as president of Osler House and Tingewick society pantomime; (00:08:47) house jobs, national service with Royal Army Medical Corps; (00:11:20) interest in dermatology; (00:13:21) dermatologist membership difficulties; (00:14:52) publishing papers early in career on blood vessels and growth of epidermis; (00:16:59) British Association for Dermatology; (00:18:03) vascular laboratory at St John's, London; returning to Oxford in 1971 as consultant; (00:20:11) Graham Weddell and leprosy patients and studies in Oxford; (00:23:04) links with the Radcliffe Infirmary, dermatology interaction with other medics and colleagues; (00:27:37) technicians in dermatology, the Slade Hospital and nurses, interest in the development of nurses in wound healing; (00:30:28) the importance of dermatology nursing, starting and developing the British Dermatology Nursing Group and International Skincare Nursing group, international work including Africa, Central America and China; (00:42:13) changes in Oxford hospitals through career, outpatient facilities at John Radcliffe compared to Radcliffe Infirmary and changes to dermatology department including surgery and facilities at the Slade Hospital; (00:47:19) colleagues in the department, support of Rosemary Rue; (00:49:30) relationships with infectious diseases department; (00:52:20) watercolour paintings, interest in Japanese paintings and buying and making décor for Oxford hospitals; (00:57:18) being contacted to organise St John's Ambulance presence at Winston Churchill's funeral; (01:00:54) continuation of international travel after retirement. Note the following section of audio is redacted: 00:17:08-00:17:14.

Derek Hockaday interviews Michael Gillmer, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, 27 February 2014. Topics discussed include: (00:00:10) coming to Oxford, Alec Turnbull; (00:01:53) initial impressions of Oxford, contrast between Oxford and St Marys, London; the John Radcliffe site and changes from original Radcliffe site; (00:06:54) John Stallworthy; (00:09:14 ) Chris Redman and Geoffrey Robinson; (00:12:30) first ultrasound scanner at the John Radcliffe; (00:14:59) workload in first five years of Oxford, split between research programme and clinical workload; (00:17:10) diabetes research; (00:20:38) teaching, Oxford medical students compared to St Marys medical students; (00:24:19) district and regional work and antenatal clinics; (00:27:55) national committees, changing nature of training for gynaecological medical examination; (00:32:03) chairman roles; (00:34:33) change in European Union and Home Office regulations on trainees from abroad, Carmen training course, obstetric specialists; (00:40:36) Alec Turnbull, chairman roles in the university and the hospital; (00:45:15) views of expansion of management in the health service; (00:49:25) Oxford nursing compared to London; (00:50:19) maternal deaths register; (00:54:39) changes in obstetric medicine over career; (01:08:20) previous Nuffield Professors of Obstetrics Gynaecology including Alec Turnbull and the Alec Turnbull family planning clinic; (01:13:14) balancing being a clinician and researcher; (01:14:18) switch from academic post to NHS consultant and discussing final paper; (01:18:50) final thoughts, comparing past with recent present including practical experience offered to medical students. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 01:15:31-01:16:20 and 01:17:34-01:17:38.

Derek Hockaday interviews David Warrell, honorary consultant physician and Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine, 24 March 2014. Topics discussed include: (00:00:13) admissions procedure to Oxford Medical School; (00:03:00) thoughts on first two years of BM and Christ Church college; (00:04:58) Peter Matthews as tutor; (00:06:45) learning anatomy; (00:10:11) academic interests; (00:11:08) clinical training at St Thomas' Hospital; (00:16:16) the London hospital circuit, returning to Oxford and initial role as consultant physician with responsibility for admissions; (00:26:05) role in South East Asia, 1978; (00:30:23) reasons for being drawn to Thailand; (00:34:33) time in Thailand, relationship with Thailand doctors and research trails and publications; (00:43:47) role of wife, Mary Warrell, in Thailand; (00:49:46) visit to China with Nick White; (00:52:14) research after first paper (dexamethasone,1982); (00:57:23) snake bite work; (01:02:11) reasons for return to Oxford after Thailand, becoming Professor of Tropical Medicine and expansion of the Centre for Tropical Medicine; (01:09:04) comparing Oxford to London Hammersmith, on-take ward rounds; (01:14:30) effect of AIDS on the infectious diseases world; (01:19:54) Wellcome trust backing and support; (01:23:26) inception of snake bite work; (01:25:30) Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Athsma clinic in Nigeria; (01:32:06) disappointments; (01:36:10) Path and Bac course; (01:38:51) changes in NHS, administrators and protocols. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:13:45-00:14:30 and 01:00:09-01:02:10.

Derek Hockaday interviews Robert Twycross, physician and pioneer of palliative care and medicine, 7 August 2018. Topics discussed include: (00:00:14) idea to come to Oxford to study medicine; (00:01:13) the admissions process to Oxford Medical School, by St Peters college; (00:04:10) Path and Bac courses after schools, schools work and lecturers; (00:06:15) clinical training; (00:09:48) house jobs with firms in Oxford; (00:14:12) support from ward sisters and other staff during houseman days; 00:16:09 applying for senior house officer jobs, Lancaster; (00:18:11) deciding to go into holistic and palliative care; (00:24:00) St Christopher's as research fellow 1971; (00:26:10) terminal care across hospitals in 1960s-1970s, teaching of Cicely Saunders; growth of communication skills in terminal care; (00:30:31) doctorate research at St Christopher's on use of diamorphine in cancer pain; (00:40:53) Sobell house, Oxford 1976; (00:54:30) patient referrals to Sobell House and domiciliary visits; (01:00:50) increase of beds for Sobell House, conversion of unit to a mini Day Centre; (01:02:58) funding for Sobell House, National Society for Cancer Relief; (01:07:31) teaching clinical students; (01:11:28) deciding between university academic post or NHS consultant later in career; (01:15:05) changes once beginning university readership 1988; (01:19:56) importance of nurses; (01:22:42) laboratory and radiology support; (01:24:00) international teaching and teaching in conjunction with the World Health Organisation; (01:27:57) interaction with anaesthetists; (01:30:10) setting up the Association of Palliative Medicine for the UK and Ireland, experiencing burnout; (01:35:42) writing and publishing books. Note the following sections of audio is redacted: 00:50:24-00:50:30.

Derek Hockaday interviews Joe Smith, consultant urologist, 18 November 2013. Topics discussed include: (00:00:17) coming to Oxford, the adoption of pure urology across the country; (00:06:30) start of appointment in Oxford, 7 July 1966, other surgeon colleagues; (00:13:30) establishing urology as a separate subject; (00:14:34) the Churchill Hospital and Radcliffe Infirmary, junior surgeon duties; (00:18:45) Oxford standards compared to other places including University College Hospital, London and United States; (00:21:30) Boder Von Galtz; (00:22:40) micturating cystogram and spinning top urethra; (00:26:12) lecturing medical instruments sales staff about urology; (00:26:55) quality of nursing at Oxford and medical students; (00:29:01) operating theatres and Towler theatres; (00:31:53) Frank Ellis; (00:34:19) national meetings; (00:37:18) giving up general surgery; (00:41:16) interaction with various professors and giving up research sessions; (00:46:54) involvement in first transplantation of kidney; (00:49:08) president of various committees/unions; (00:51:00) development of the Oxford Medical School, 1966; (00:53:44) early childhood in Lancaster, choosing London over Manchester to train and post-qualification. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:08:07-00:08:30; 00:11:26-00:11:34; 00:36:29-00:36:41; 00:43:54-00:44:05; 00:44:43-00:45:40 and 00:48:19-00:48:31.

Derek Hockaday interviews Peter Sleight, research cardiologist and consultant physician, 22 September 2013. Topics discussed include: (00:00:09) time at St Georges Hospital, London and time in San Francisco, work on receptors for the Bezold reflex; (00:07:40) coming to Oxford Physiology lab in 1964; (00:09:14) return to Oxford for senior Medical Research Council 3 year fellowship based in physiology; (00:11:45) balancing fibre picking with clinical work at Oxford; (00:12:55) sabbatical in Sydney, Australia, interest in carotid baroreceptor; (00:16:16) British Heart Foundation supported Chair in Cardiology, Sleight's application; (00:20:12) work as an on-take physician alongside consultancy, time with Dr Buzzard; (00:23:26) introducing pacemaker service in Oxford; (00:26:26) the development of the coronary care unit; (00:28:35) working with Salim Yusuf, Richard Peto and beginning of ISIS-1 trial - International Study of Infarct Survival; (00:35:03) cardiac radiology and catheterisation; (00:36:40) thrombolysis; (00:39:55) firm C, move to the John Radcliffe; (00:44:29) national and international groups; (00:48:02) funding; (00:52:33) involvement with students; (00:55:08) Russia; (01:09:09) comparison of standards of Oxford Medical School (clinical and nursing) and other places; (01:10:59) effect of ultrasound on cardiology; (01:13:59) research papers, sabbatical to Pavia; (01:22:07) change in hypertension interest and chairing clinical trials; (01:24:44) Barbara Casadei; (01:27:54) Rashkind procedure in New Delhi 1966. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:39:37-00:39:54; 01:12:34-01:12:41; 01:13:38-01:13:47 and 01:25:28-01:26:16.

Derek Hockaday interviews Chris Redman, obstetric consultant and clinical professor, 13 November 2016. Topics discussed include: (00:00:18) BA at Cambridge and clinical studies at Oxford Medical school; (00:02:54) John Ledingham and Alec Cook; (00:04:37) clinical years and pathology; (00:05:46) service internship in the United States; (00:09:20) house jobs; (00:10:22) neonatal experience in Jessop Hospital, Sheffield; (00:12:17) accepting lectureship in general medicine at Oxford; (00:15:13) thesis on management of hypertension; (00:19:57) John Bonnar and reorganisation of department of obstretics, data collection, (00:20:49) developing technique to manage severe pre-eclampsia; (00:24:42) return to thesis; (00:27:36) NHS job leading to consultant job; (00:29:46) working with obstetricians and research midwives; (00:31:11) full time academic position in obstetric medicine; (00:33:48) maternal deaths; (00:37:04) Anne Anderson and menopause clinic; (00:39:38) original trial and publication; (00:41:02) development of approach to pre-eclampsia, medical help within the obstetric service; (00:44:39) lecturing nationally and internationally in the early 1980s, Marshall Lindheimer; (00:46:09) work in later part of career including 1991 paper on pre-eclampsia being a placental condition, pioneering contribution to factors connecting clinical features of pre-eclampsia; (00:54:38) leaving clinical work; (00:56:45) the NHS; (00:57:25) university work since retirement, work with Ian Sargeant including on trophoblast microvesicles; (01:04:37) teaching of medical students; (01:08:40) final thoughts including changing attitude to research throughout career and NHS compared with health care in other countries, nursing and midwives. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:12:00-00:12:15; 00:16:43-00:16:48; 00:19:02-00:19:34; 00:25:16-00:25:21; 00:38:10-00:38:35 and 00:58:55-00:58:59.

Peggy Frith interviews Sir Christopher Paine, consultant clinical oncologist and former Director of Clinical Studies, 25 Jul 2012. Topics discussed include: (00:01:30) time in Oxford as Director of Clinical studies; (00:04:17) first stepping into the role as DCS, number of student admissions; (00:08:57) Alastair Lang, reorganising clinical work around role; (00.12:40) colleagues in the medical school office; (00.13:48) balancing university, academic and pastoral duties in the medical school; (00:16:15) Peter Morris; (00:18:44) students electives, student questionnaire; (00:23:01) helpful colleagues with the medical curriculum during the role, Tim Till; (00:25:46) committee work; (00:27:59) leaving Director of Clinical Studies, role as district NHS General Manager; (00:36:13) change of medical school, and life in general, due to electronic communication and computers; importance of diplomatic skills in medicine; (00:38:59) continuing clinical practice and keeping up medicine whilst undertaking other roles; (00:43:09) Frank Ellis, development of radiotherapy; (00:58:02) Manny Lee and his caricatures; (01:02:27) summary of career, activities after resigning from Oxford consultant post; (01:06:13) changes in the NHS. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:00:00-00:00:05; 00:14:23-00:15:13; 00:16:57-00:17:50; 00:18:05-00:18:43; 00:30:13-00:31:19; 00:33:19-00:34:50 and 00:56:15-00:56:58.

Derek Hockaday interviews John Oxbury, neurologist, 20 November 2013. Topics discussed include: (00:00:29) reasons for coming Oxford neurology department; (00:04:19) the London system and clinical training in London; (00:07:50) comparing nursing between Oxford and London hospitals; (00:09:15) development of interest in epilepsy; (00:12:35) working with John Spalding and Alex Crampton Smith doing general neurology on the Respiratory Unit; (00:15:40) professors of neurology including William Ritchie Russell and Brian Matthews; (00:22:35) John Spalding; (00:25:15) the Oxford Respiration Unit Flying Squad; (00:28:42) patient based research papers in the late 1960s; (00:33:44) membership; (00:35:14) writing with Charles Witty; (00:36:59) work as Professor Brian Matthews' first assistant on stroke treatment; (00:43:15) organisation of neurology department and becoming honorary consultant; (00:46:35) differences between honorary consultant and NHS consultant on working practices; (00:49:00) epilepsy surgery, Chris Adams developing hemispherectomy and effect of improved medical imaging; (00:56:40) development of drug therapy on treating epilepsy; (00:58:39) petit mal and treatment; (01:00:20) national and international meetings on epilepsy and neuropsychology; (01:03:03) work load of medics past and present; (01:09:05) working with his wife Sue Oxbury, (01:13:13) clinical psychologists and treatment of epilepsy; (01:15:00) influences including Oliver Zangwill and Joe Pennybacker, Ritchie Russell, Charles Witty and John Spalding.

Derek Hockaday interviews Richard Moxon, Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics and former Chairman of Paediatrics, 21 July 2016. Topics discussed include: (00:00:12) coming to Oxford from Johns Hopkins University; (00:02:23) balance of clinical, teaching and research work in the United States, as head role in Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases; (00:04:17) meeting and interview for position in Oxford; (00:05:56) the inception of the Institute of Molecular Medicine; (00:07:13) reaction to Oxford hospitals compared to Johns Hopkins; (00:10:55) difference between Oxford and Johns Hopkins in terms of clinical care; (00.14:49) differences in nursing and physiotherapy between Oxford and Johns Hopkins, (00.15:51) centralisation of paediatrics and making a case for children's hospital in Oxford; (00.19:44) teaching clinical medicine students in Oxford; (00.20:56) general practice and child health care, paediatric teaching; (00.24:24) research in incidents of Haemophilus Influenzae type B; (00.28:48) vaccinology research unit and staff; (00:32:26) continuing bench work after interest in epidemiology and summary of the first seven years working in Oxford; (00:35:26) David Weatherall; (00:36:21) laboratory space before the Institute of Molecular Medicine; (00.36:49) basic research work in the United States continued in Oxford with the vaccine, leading to the Oxford Vaccine Group; (00:39:29) moving on to research in meningococcus, deep involvement in whole genome sequencing; (00.41:27) the Stroud strain of meningococcus and complete sequence of the strain, 1997-2000; (00:42:55) process of producing a vaccine; (00:44:54) significance of sabbatical, repetitive DNA in bacterial genomes; (00:46:45) changing interactions with the NHS post sabbatical; (00:49:39) fund for the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine; (00:51:01) travelling to represent the Oxford paediatric department, writing articles; (00:51:55) retirement; (00:58:08) working in Siena and other tasks during retirement; (00:57:35) thoughts on research as a head of department compared to approach of George Pickering; (01:02:00) final thoughts on Oxford. The following sections of audio are redacted: 00:05:20-00:05:30; 00:50:31-00:50:39 and 01:05:16-01:05:58.

Derek Hockaday interviews Neil Mortensen, consultant colorectal surgeon, 10 November 2014. Topics discussed include: (00:00:20) moving to Oxford from senior lecturer role in Bristol; (00:02:39) Sidney Truelove and gastroenterology surgery; (00:03:39) general surgery; (00:06:33) introduction of specialisation in Oxford medicine; (00:08:11) the effect of specialisation on undergraduate and clinical teaching; (00:10:06) the national matching scheme; (00:11.32) effect of imaging on examining patients, importance of physical signs; (00.13:04) rectal cancer and imaging; (00.14:00) nursing in Oxford compared to Bristol, anaesthetists; (00:16:35) anal rectal physiology; (00:19:03) intraluminal ultrasound; (00.19:59) development of colitis treatment; (00.22:13) the Association of Colorectal Surgeons; (00.23:39) introduction of national bowel cancer screening program; (00.25:16) change in junior staffing during Mortensen's career; (00.28:05) the Oxford Colon Cancer Trust; (00.31:15) assisting other surgeons with surgery; (00.33:12) time outside Oxford for meetings and commitments including director of general, vascular, trauma surgery and gastroenterology role; (00.37:35) rise of the managerial class and rise of the administrator in medicine; (00.43:12) three session lists in surgery at the Churchill Hospital; (00.44:21) post-operative care; (00.46:33) publications; (00.48:35) private practice; (00.51:27) moving gastrointestinal surgery to the Churchill site near to Oncology ward; (00.56:37) work with Walter Bodmer; (00.57:46) genetic analysis. Note the following section of audio is redacted: 00:00:00-00:00:05.

Derek Hockaday interviews Brian Longworth, former mechanical technician and engineer at the Radcliffe Infirmary, 31 July 2015. Topics discussed include: (00:00:09) initial time at Radcliffe Infirmary engineering department in 1954; (00:04:28) leaving school, steel press apprenticeship; (00:05:49) early work as a turner; (00:08:51) arc eye; (00:09:46) reasons for going to the Radcliffe Infirmary and work there (00:12:48) statutory engineers working week change of hours; (00:16:23) interviewing for technician assistant to Alfie Lord; (00:19:01) Robot Royal camera to take photographs of operating theatre; (00:23:13) transferring to x-ray department – work and colleagues; (00:28:02) job coming up with Professor Allison as a technician in surgery, memories of Dr Fred Wright, 1957-8; (00:32:35) details of mechanical technician job in surgery; (00:37:57) changes when Professor Allison arrived at the Radcliffe, ward sisters; (00:44:20) new theatres, machinery; (00:45:52) using a cine camera for surgery photography; (00:48:13) early heart surgery; (00:54:01) Mr Kerr and Charlie Webster at the Radcliffe; (00:56:44) leaving the Radcliffe to work at Letcombe as laboratory steward; (01:00:11) applying for job with Grant de Jersey Lee; (01:04:13) Terry Denton; (01:07:38) working with other surgeons and colleagues; (01:11:30) the Mayo-Gibbon machine; (01:15:19) the Women's Institute; (01:19:34) working with anaesthetists, experience of anaesthetic; (01:25:28) engineers location at Radcliffe Infirmary; (01:34:09) working with animals; (01:37:57) growing into technician job, interactions at nurses lectures; (01:43:40) George Pickering; (01:48:48) Harold Ellis. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:07:33-07:07:47; 00:35:32-00:36:17; 00:50:34-00:50:50; 00:51:31-00:54:00; 00:57:35-00:57:55; 00:59:12-00:59:40; 01:23:32-01:23:47; 01:27:43-01:28:06; 01:30:40-01:31:16; 01:45:26-01:46:34; 01:49:58-01:50:29 and 01:51:02-01:51:34.

Derek Hockaday interviews Grant de Jersey Lee, physician and cardiologist, 13 June 2013. Topics discussed include: (00:01:40) experiences in the Second World War and learning on the job after medical school; (00:03:43) St. Thomas' Hospital to train; (00:06:02) coming to Oxford to work for George Pickering; (00:09:01) comparing Oxford hospitals to St. Thomas' in terms of medicine; (00:12:54) balancing cardiology with general medicine; (00.13:53) Plethysmograph and research interests, non-invasive cardiac surgery; (00:17:53) beginning of the Cardiac Lab in Oxford; (00:22:21) research in microcirculation of the lung and the plethysmograph; (00:25:27) working with Julius Comroe and Arthur DuBois in Philadelphia on microcirculation; (00:28:32) applying learnings from Philadelphia and making technical equipment back in Oxford; (00:34:27) on-take medicine; (00:35:27) John Ledingham and his firm; (00:37:04) the yield of the plethysmograph; (00:48:48) colleagues, including Bheeshma Rajagopalan; (00:41:25) evolution of medical duties and opening of the John Radcliffe; relationships between general practitioners and the hospital; (00:45:29) changes to the training of nurses; (00:59:10) reflecting on time and changes at John Radcliffe and the NHS and medicine in general (01:05:02) views about committees; (01:06:52) administration, communication and information in medicine. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:10:24-00:10:35; 00:20:37-00:21:46; 00:40:07-00:40:25; 00:50:26-59:09.

Peggy Frith interviews Jim Holt, former Director of Clinical studies for Oxford Medical School, 1 June 2012. Topics discussed include: (00:00:41) university days at St. Andrews; (00:01:53) going to Canada to work at Kingston General Hospital; (00:03:31) returning to Oxford, Nuffield Professors of Medicine, overview of Oxford career; (00:06:43) interest in lymphoma; (00:08:17) differences between Canadian and British medicine in the 1960s; (00:09:22) experience of arriving and working in Oxford; (00:12:07) time as Director of Clinical studies, challenges and enjoyment; (00:18:36) success of Oxford clinical medical school, Green Templeton college, the Nuffield Foundation; (00:29:00) growth of Oxford Medical School; (00:36:45) Tingewick Society; (00:40:34) Holt family labrador trips to the medical wards in Oxford. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:00:00-00:00:13; 00:18:04-00:18:33; 00:34:07-00:35:30.

Derek Hockaday interviews John Ledingham, professor of Clinical Medicine and former Director of Clinical Studies, 2013. Topics discussed include: (00:00:04) entrance to Oxford; (00:00:51) national service in Hong Kong; (00:01:41) changing Oxford course to medicine, tutors for first three years at Oxford; (00:05:00) experience of first three years and schools years; (00:07:12) inspiration from Path and Bac course and Rob Smith; (00:09:25) Oxford compared to London in terms of medical education; (00:11:45) travelling scholarship to New York; (00:13:08) functioning of the Radcliffe Infirmary compared to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital; (00:16:20) comparisons of standard of nursing care across hospitals; (00:17:26) appointment in Oxford as physician; (00:19:38) interest in nephrology; (00:22:32) anecdote illustrating medicine now and then, the renal unit; (00:26:33) Nuffield Department of Medicine readership; (00:28:39) research on kidney, hypertension and supervision of Dphil students; (00:30:55) George Alberti; (00:32:41) involvement in committees and the Medical Research Society; (00:34:15) publishing research; (00:37:39) consultants on firms for the NHS and Nuffield Department of Medicine; (00:40:52) introducing case discussions at the NDM; (00:53:41) ward takes changing through career; (00:45:34) National Renal Association, reading in nephrology; (00:46:42) Paul Beeson's role in Oxford medicine; (00:50:09) surgery at Oxford hospitals; (00:56:10) evolution of drugs to treat hypertension; (00:59:05) interaction with New College; (01:01:55) influence of Emergency Bed Service on London medicine; (01:03:50) unification, George Pickering's vision of Oxford Medicine team; (01:06:08) medical administration. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:24:08-00:24:15; 00:51:09-00:51:40.

Derek Hockaday interviews consultant chest physician Donald Lane, 31 Oct 2013. Topics discussed include: (00:00:12) coming to Oxford; (00:04:20) Honor Smith; (00:07:37) Christchurch College; (00:09:02) clinical years at St. Barts. Hospital, London; (00:12:43) working in surgery, medicine and Accident and Emergency at Redhill Hospital; (00:14:54) returning to Oxford for post-registration house job; (00:16:45) senior house job in Manchester; (00:18:16) Douglas Black; (00:20:16) research Dphil; (00:24:29) returning to Oxford, registrar position; (00:26:27) Paul Beeson; (00:30:14) combining general medicine with respiratory medicine at the Chest Unit and Churchill Hospital; (00:35:10) changes at the Chest Unit in Lane's time; (00:38:22) work on asthma, importance of The Asthma Society; (00:45:40) stopping general medicine in 1980; (00:48:23) university work during consultancy; (00:50:46) national commitments; (00:51:54) role of Oxford education in medical career; (00:53:07) evolution of treatment of Cystic Fibrosis; (00:58:37) legacy of the Oxford hospital orchestra; (01:01:34) comparing standards of care between Oxford, Redhill and St. Barts.; (01:04:15) case presentations.

Derek Hockaday interviews Derek Jewell, Emeritus Professor of Gastroenterology, 14 Feb 2013. Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) coming to Pembroke College, Oxford, time as an undergraduate, including memories of Percy O'Brien; (00:02:27) year of studying animal physiology; (00:05:47) Oxford for clinical years; (00:07:40) entrance procedure to Oxford Medical School; (00:12:40) clinical years; (00:15:27) interest in the blood laboratories during senior house surgeon job; iron, vitamin b12 and Dphil in gastroenterology area; (00:18:46) John Badenoch and Sidney Truelove; (00:19:52) house jobs; (00:21:25) Oxford hospitals compared to Hammersmith Hospital; (00:23:36) Paul Beeson; (00:25:46) more on DPhil research; (00:28:09) senior registrar role, Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship to Stanford; (00:34:03) experience of working with inpatients; (00:37:37) work at the Royal Free Hospital, returning to Oxford; (00:40:46) Sidney Truelove, Oxford school and inflammatory bowel disease, editing the textbook of gastroenterology; (00:50:56) advances in gastroenterology; (00:54:58) interaction between gastroenterologists and surgeons; (00:58:54) pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease; (01:02:36) changes in treatment of Chrohn's disease; (01:07:57) Oxford compared to other places in relation to inflammatory bowel disease; 01:11.40 miniature sabbatical trips; 01:12:46 stopping general medicine; (01:17:57) National Health Service trajectory since the 1970s; (01:23:12) final thoughts. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:45:05-00:45:19; 01:25:56-01:26:07; 01:26:28-01:26:39.

Interview with Trevor Hughes, neuropathologist and fellow of Green Templeton College, conducted by Derek Hockaday, 2015. Topics discussed included: (00:00:17) Hughes coming to Oxford from Stoke Mandeville in 1957; (00:05:12) how Stoke Mandeville and Oxford hospitals compared to each other, distinctions between Oxford hospitals; (00:07:18) changes in Oxford hospitals as a result of the creation of NHS in 1948, comparing Oxford to Manchester in the 1940s; (00:10:04) moving to neuropathology over haematology; (00:14:38) John Spalding; (00:18:12) neuropathology during the the Second World War, memories of staff colleagues including Peter Daniel and Sabrina Strich, more on John Spalding; (00:33:05) Honor Smith; (00:40:16) change of techniques in neuropathology over time, working in field; (00:44:30) balancing consultancy, teaching and tutor for post-graduate medicine in Oxford; (00:48:18) neurosurgeons including Joe Pennybacker, Hugh Cairns and Walpole Lewin, other Nuffield Professors; (00:59:10) committees and the university including the Nuffield Committee for Medical Research and the Clinical Medicine Board; (01:08:13) working with Richard Doll; (01:18:56) researching of the spinal cord, publication; (01:21:35) neuropathology and the John Radcliffe Hospital. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:16:38-00:17:01; 00:18:55-00:19:07; 00:26:19-00:29:14; 00:31:37-00:31:47; 00:56:45-56:59; 01:11-01:13:21; 01:14:37-01:15:22; 01:22:17-01:24:00.

Derek Hockaday interviews Tony Hope, Professor of Medical ethics and honorary consultant psychiatrist, 6 May 2014. Topics discussed include: (00:00:16) first degree at Oxford prior to Medicine and early academic career; (00:06:58) physiology department, Oxford, and colleagues; (00:09:15) clinical years, including remembering Jim Holt; (00:12:34) interest in psychiatry during house jobs; (00:17:00) the Middlesex Hospital teaching compared to Oxford; (00:18:46) move into psychiatry, the Phoenix Unit at Littlemore Hospital; (00:22:00) diagnosis in psychiatry; (00:23:54) Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; (00:27:40) medical ethics, Sid Bloch, student society The Oxford Medical Forum, developing teaching practice skills in Oxford, change of ethical management of patients in the 1970s; (00:41:45) teaching role in ethics and communications; (00:47:25) assessing success of teaching ethics; (00:51:51) working on dementia; (00:56:55) interaction between hospital and community relating to psychiatry; (01:01:13) Oxford university lectureship; (01:06:58) setting up the Ethox Foundation; (01:09:31) clinical work from 2005 onwards; (01:12:38) ethics research including on anorexia nervosa; (01:18:29) changes in student interest in medical ethics; (01:20:47) publications; (01:21:53) the Oxford Medical Forum; (01:23:47) proudest contribution to clinical work; (01:25:35) final thoughts, the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:59:56-1:01:12 and 01:04:54-1:06:58.

Interview with Peggy Frith, deputy Director of Clinical Studies for Oxford University Medical School and consultant ophthalmologist, conducted by Derek Hockaday, 15 Sep 2015. Topics discussed include: (00:00:18) why Frith came to Oxford for clinical training; (00:02:01) admissions procedure into Oxford Medical School; (00:04:19) time as a clinical student; (00:06:55) finals and surgical viva; (00:10:29) house jobs post qualification; (00:12:42) paediatric surgeon role; (00:17:29) role as senior house officer at Nuffield Department of Medicine and memories of colleagues; (00:18:48) neurology work; (00:20:25) move into ophthalmology; (00:26:29) setting up neuro-opthalmology clinic and training flexibly in London; (00:30:45) working at the Dragon House as housemasters wife; (00:31:38) Oxford Eye Hospital; (00:33:01) setting up a London clinic service for HIV patients with retinitis; (00:39:23) Oxford Eye Hospital; (00:46:02) moving across to University in role as deputy Director of Clinical Studies; (00:49:16) pastoral care of medical students; (00:57:46) most enjoyable experiences in career; (01:01:11) addressing sexism in medicine; (01:04:44) publications and national meetings; (01:06:16) dermatology and skin clinic links; (01:11:39) position at New College; (01:13:53) Athena Swan; (01:14:44) Tingewick society; (01:17:25) Oxford compared to other medical schools and hospitals around the country. Note the following section of audio is redacted: 01:00:10-01:00:39.

Derek Hockaday interviews Andrew Freeland, ENT consultant and surgeon, 22 May 2014 Topics discussed include: (00:00:10) starting in Oxford as a senior house surgeon in 1968 in ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery, colleagues work and training at Guys Hospital; (00:04:00) Ronald Macbeth and Gavin Livingstone, history of ENT at the Radcliffe Infirmary during second world war and thalidomide disaster; (00:09:34) why Freeland applied for Oxford role; (00:10:15) research year in Banting institute, Toronto and laryngeal cancer work; (00:14:48) clinical students and teaching ENT; (00:16:19) Bill Lund; (00:19:50) deafness and cochlea implants; (00:23:00) private practice alongside day work (00:24:35) nursing in Oxford hospitals; (00:26:06) evolution of handling wax in the ears and hearing aid clinic; (00:28:46) honorary lecturing and students; (00:30:01) importance of anaesthetists; (00:31:44) Oxford tracheostomy tube; (00:33:09) tonsils; (00:35:45) ENT department; (00:39:17) committees; (00:40:30) changes in ENT medicine throughout career; (00:44:49) change in relationships between consultants and administrators; (00:50:00) future of medicine; (00:53:13) NHS in Oxford; (00:55:04) ENT conditions more common due to ageing population; (01:00:53) deciding to study medicine. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:01:22-00:01:37; 00:32:48-00:33:09; 00:38:27-00:39:16; 00:43:18-00:44:00; 00:54:48-00:54:52.

Derek Hockaday interviews Godfrey Fowler, general practitioner and medical scientist, 7 Mar 2014 Topics discussed include: (00:00:09) admissions procedure to Oxford Medical School; (00:02:21) choosing to come to Oxford, early experiences at University College; (00:07:31) University College Hospital, London, for clinical training and then the return to Oxford as General Practitioner; (00:12:00) students in general practice; (00:14:54) role as a college doctor in Oxford; (00:23:23) case for a general practice post at Oxford University; (00:29:30) clinical students being sent out to general practices routinely; (00:31:12) research during readership post; (00:34:20) Bent Juel-Jensen and other colleagues; (00:40:57) publications; (00:42:49) successors to Fowler's chair of General Practice since 1996; (00:45:59) remaining a GP in Oxford throughout career; (00:47:12) Oxford hospitals and Oxford University as an institution; (00:49:12) involvement in national committees; (00:54:02) teaching small groups of clinical students; (00:56:05) health centres in central Oxford. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:25:39-00:25:51; 00:38:12-00:38:38; 00:43:26-00:43:39; 00:53:05-00:53:09.

Derek Hockaday interviews Pierre Foex, Emeritus Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics, 21 November 2018. Topics include: (00:00:12) coming to Oxford initially in 1970; (00:03:50) respiration unit at Churchill and the Radcliffe Infirmary; (00:05:20) Guillain-Barre and first case treated by temporary pace maker; (00:07:23) Dphil thesis on effect of carbon-dioxide on the heart and circulation; (00:10:38) research into beta blockers and anaesthesia; (00:13:00) relationship with the university; (00:16:07) teaching clinical students; (00:19:08) the Pain Clinic; (00:22:01) anaesthetic Dphil students; (00:26:07) moving from lecturer to professor to retired professor and university changes such as the Nuffield Benefaction including the field of grants; (00:31:20) relationships with surgeons, and memories of collaboration with Peter Morris as Nuffield Professor of Surgery; (00:40:51) working with the nurses and importance of nurses; (00:44:56) changes in fluid balance management throughout career; (00:49:07) differences in nursing between Geneva and Oxford; (00:50:50) balancing writing, lecturing, working and being involved on national scene as member of Council of the College of Anaesthetists and representative on the Oxford Radcliffe Trust Board; (01:00:24) interactions with Oxford relating to NHS university department; (01:05:30) comments on being in Oxford during first rate developments, impact of the Oxford Centre for Simulation at the John Radcliffe; (01:15:11) use of exercise electrocardiograms ECGs. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:23:31-00:24:39, 00:55:42-00:56:19; 00:58:05-01:00:24.

Peggy Frith interviews Derek Hockaday, 24 Sep 2020 Topics discussed include: (00:00:22) context of interviewing Derek Hockaday, thoughts on the recollecting oxford medicine interviews in general; (00:01:40) getting into medicine, first contact with the Radcliffe Infirmary as a patient in 1946, school days; (00:03:46) time at Brasenose college, Oxford in 1947; (00:05:30) George Gordon and increasing terms tutored in physiology; (00:06:55) research in physiology; (00:07:55) being drawn to clinical medicine; (00:08:42) BSc research work; (00:11:10) clinical training in the Middlesex Hospital; (00:13:31) anecdotes about clinical student visits; (00:15:15) medical finals; (00:16:10) Wheatley Military Hospital; (00:17:59) discussing Hugh Cairns and Cairns hospital for head injuries; (00:19:48) George Pickering, Ian Bush and chemical investigations into psychiatric patients; (00:24:00) angiography patients at Wheatley, angiography pre scanning; (00:26:59) George Pickering; (00:28:22) Cambridge pre-clinical students coming to train clinically at Oxford; (00:29:38) year in Boston, Massachusetts endocrine unit at the Mass. General Hospital; (00:35:20) returning from America to Oxford, becoming a consultant; (00:39:37) the Oxford Diabetic Clinic, introduction of dialysis to Oxford; (00:43:24) wards and firms looking after patients; (00:44:13) hutted wards; (00:45:06) teaching and lecturing of clinical students; (00:45:50) medical tutor 1980 at Brasenose; (00:48:09) training diabetologists including George Alberti; (00:51:13) Sheffield speciality in Renal medicine, influence of Ranjan Yajnik on diabetic medicine in India; (00:52:57) figures involved in Oxford research in diabetes; (00:54:43) diabetic coma treatments research trials; (01.01:33) contact bedside testing; (01.02:33) inception of, and effect of Sheikh Rashid Diabetes Unit, Oxford; (01:10:16) the fifth principle of physiology; (01:11:10) randomised trial on diabetic treatments and Richard Doll; (01:12:10) side effect of alcohol flushing; (01:15:04) medical administration; (01.23:25) sport; (01:28:14) final thoughts including clinical appointment times, praising nursing profession and first ward round as consultant. Note the following sections are redacted: 00:33:21-00:33:43; 00:40:35-00:41:54; 001:12:47-01:12:56.

Derek Hockaday interviews Julian Britton, surgeon and former Director of Clinical Studies for Oxford Medical School, 23 Jan 2019. Topics discussed include: (00:00:10) deciding to come to Oxford; (00:03:18) going to Newport as a senior registrar; (00:06:00) thoughts when first arriving at Oxford, surgeons, memories of Ted Maloney; (00:11:26) leaving the Nuffield Department of Surgery and applying for professorship; (00:12:34) research whilst in the Nuffield Department of Surgery and with the haematology department, Cardiff; (00:15:30) impressions of the Radcliffe Infirmary nursing and facilities when arriving from Newport; (00:19:04) time as Director of Clinical Studies at Oxford in 1983; (00:26:02) interest and training in keyhole surgery and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; (00:32:24) liver surgery; (00:37:11) the development of ultrasound, use particularly with jaundiced patients; (00:41:13) nursing changes and the Salmon report; (00:42:22) medical administration changes; (00:52:23) private practice; (00:54:18) surgical departments, surgeon colleagues; (01:01:40) publications; (01:04:37) laparoscopic repair; (01:06:35) holidays and hobbies; (01:09:11) training up junior staff in surgeries; (01:11:06) Green Templeton college and The Radcliffe Committee, time as the Vice-Warden of the college; (01:17:30) portraits of John Walton; (01:22:20) final thoughts including changing opinion of arts subjects and how they help in medical career, Alex Gatherer, Peter Morris and David Weatherall; (01:33:25) grand rounds of endoscopic and laparoscopc surgeries. Note that the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:11:57-00:12:20; 01:18:06-01:18:25; 01:27:25-01:28:00; 01:31:04-01:32:45.

Derek Hockaday interviews Hung Cheng, consultant ophthalmological surgeon, 11 February 2015. Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) first visit to Oxford for Oxford Congress, 1967; (00:03:10) Xenon Arc photocoagulation and use for treatment of maculothapy; (00:11:06) why HC decided to come to Oxford; (00:12:53) grant from the Wellcome Trust to study effects of glucose control; (00:15:03) lens implantation; (00:16:02) biochemistry of lens, cataract surgery ;(00:19:49) diabetic interests; (00:20:45) involvement with UK Prospective Diabetes Study, working with Robert Turner and Philip Awdry; (00:22:30) diabetic retinopathy lecture; (00:24:02) changes in Oxford Eye Hospital over years; (00:26:34) teaching clinical students; Oxford alumna; (00:32:20) tower block facilities, development of the craniofacial unit; (00:34:38) standard of nursing at Oxford, priority conditions and waiting times; (00:39:34) relationships with anaesthetists and comparison with anaesthesiology in London; (00:42:33) work with pathologists and bacteriologists (00:44:10) busiest time of career; (00:47:36) work at Banbury; (00:49:53) private work; (00:53:20) national meetings, OSUK before college established ; (00:58:49) publications; (00:59:56) travel.

Derek Hockaday interviews Nick Dudley, consultant surgeon and founder member of the British Association of Endocrine Surgeons, 26 March 2014. Topics discussed include: (00:00:15) Why Dudley came to oxford in 1968 as a registrar, surgical firms worked with; (00:01:55) involvement in paediatrics; (00:03:10) memories of registrar years in general surgery; (00:05:09) comparison of Oxford hospitals to London hospitals; (00:07:15) thoughts and memories of George Edward 'Ted' Maloney and other surgeons; (00:09:23) work in Melbourne including developing a new operation for oesophageal atresia; (00:10:31) teaching at Oxford, comments on the old firm system and comparisons of student contact; (00:11:45) paediatric surgery; (00:15:12) thyroid work; (00:18:26) difference between being a consultant and senior registrar; (00:20:06) research as a consultant, anorectal anomalies focus; (00:22:37) surgical travelling clubs; (00:29:55) views on Oxford pre-clinical and clinical training school; (00:31:59) linking up with local district hospitals, becoming regional adviser for the Royal College of Surgeons; (00:34:53) meetings for Chairman of The Court of Examiners; (00:37:37) publishing; (00:39:25) Peter Morris; (00:42:10) anaesthetists and theatre sisters; (00:45:02) moving to the John Radcliffe; (00:46:56) effect of imaging; (00:48:16) visiting clinics in North America; (00:49:48) impressions of United States; (00:53:00) breast screening; (00:54:17) involvement of administrators; (00:58:59) people of influence; (01:01:39) going to Lille; (01:04:20) changes in nursing; (01:05:47) final thoughts including grand rounds and lecturing in Beijing. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:07:19-00:07:29; 00:56:20-00:56:49; 01:10:19-01:10:36.

Derek Hockaday interviews David Paterson, physiologist and Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, 8 January 2019. Topics discussed include: (00:00:09) coming from Western Australia to Oxford for doctoral studies; (00:01:58) switching from breathing to the heart and focus on cardiac electrophysiology; (00:03:35) comparison of initially coming as a tutorial fellow to teaching now at Oxford; (00:07:51) administration and divisionalisation; (00:09:51) interactions between clinicians and pre-clinicians past and present; (00:12:24) how funding has changed (not just for Oxford but for Briitsh science); (00:14:13) changes in subjects and information being taught at Oxford; (00:15:00) teaching using HoloLens; (00:18:15) role as professor and head of department; (00:20:30) undergraduate medical students and funding; (00:23:34) admissions to Oxford medical school; (00:28:48) decisions on clinical placements; (00:31:06) work outside of Oxford including editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physiology; (00:33:40) moving from Otago to Western Australia; (00:40:22) comparing medical schools in the United States.

Derek Hockaday interviews Peter Burge, hand surgeon and consultant, 8 August 2014. Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre; (00:02:28) working for John Goodfellow; (00:04:45) meeting his wife, Susan, (00:05:31) moving to Bristol for Senior House Officer job; (00:06:50) Bristol hospitals compared to Oxford hospitals; (00:07:44) osteomyelitis; (00:09:40) decision to go to Oxford; (00:11:31) tutors at Pembroke college; (00:13:16) interest in music; (00:17:12) clinical lectures; (00:20:28) night work; (00:21:24) the Trauma Service [formerly the Accident Service] and neurosurgeons; (00:24:11) effect of Robert Duthie on Nuffield orthopaedic centre; (00:30:20) visa qualifying exam to practice medicine in the United States; (00:31:12) time in the United States and microsurgery; (00:34:50) interest in hand surgeries; (00:41:56) Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre becoming independent and operating theatres at the centre; (00:50:34) the Accident Service and difference between Oxford and Birmingham Hospital concepts; (00:53:39) intensive care units at the Radcliffe Infirmary; (00:55:05) hand surgery colleagues; (01:01:01) endoscopy in the shoulder; (01:10:34) Metabolic Bone Research Unit; (01:11.40) research at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre; (01:14:06) microvascular surgery; (01:18:44) clinical students at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre; (01:20:30) involvement in national and international societies including research and articles on Dupuytrens disease and non-union of the scaphoid; (01:28:39) choosing to do clinical training in Oxford, contact with Pembroke College; (01:32:30) work load as a clinical student compared to pre-clinical years; (01:37:18) the 1990s as the busiest time of career. Note the following section of audio is redacted: 00:03:54-00:04:02.

Peggy Frith interviews John Ledingham, professor of Clinical Medicine and former Director of Clinical Studies, 23 April 2012. Topics discussed include: (00:03:45) grand rounds and Concilia; (00:04:43) George Pickering and growth of Oxford Medical School; (00:08:15) other main drivers of the growth of the medical school including influx of young and liaison with Cambridge Medical Society and Theo Chalmers, success of medical school; (00:10:50) university and NHS; (00:12:38) student uptake; other key elements of Oxford Medical School success including: (00:15:00) alumni; (00:15:45) Osler house, teaching; (00:17:40) student opinion encouraged and equal part of team, as opposed to 'worship of the consultant'; (00:19:19) juggling teaching and research balance; (00:21:22) Medical Research Society; (00:22:35) Dphil students, including Peter Ratcliffe; (00:24:43) time as Director of Clinical Studies including what the role is there for (00:33:16) Evan Harris, MP (00:36:30) Osler House Boat Club; (00:37:30) College fees and meeting estate bursars relating to Green College; (00:38:39) women in medicine; (00:39:49) women physicians in the family, women in professorships; (00:43:25) career of mother, Una Ledingham; (00:44:37) career of wife, Elaine Ledingham; (00:45:47) treat people not diseases, what makes a good doctor or clinician; (00:49:48) the Clinical gift; (00:52:00) careers and the importance of role model; (00:55:44) particularly inspirational role model – Michael Kremer; (00:58:39) advice from his father; (01:00:26) general conversation, memorable patients, Munchausen syndrome; (01:05:00) Dick Bayliss; (01:06:50) decision to study medicine; (01:09:00) clinical school at Middlesex; (01:10:45) career path, returning to Oxford; (01:11:27) funding for Osler House refurbishment, Wing Tat Lee; (01:17:56) rowing and John Bell; (01:20:30) application decisions as Director of Clinical Studies. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:13:08-13:58; 29:21-32:32; 00:33:48-00:33:58; 00:34:05- 00:36:32; 00:37:37- 00:38:22; 01:00:46-01:00:54; 01:11:38-01:13:30; 01:14:31-01:15:25.

Part 4 of Derek Hockaday's interview with Susan Burge, consultant dermatologist and former Director of Clinical Studies, 22 July 2015. Final part of the interview with Susan Burge continued from part 3. Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) education and examinations; (00:06:02) teaching dermatology nationally; (00:08:20) British Association for Dermatology; (00:11:08) British Society for Medical Dermatology; (00:16:15) activities in retirement; (00:20:15) women and working part time; (00:23:30) worst experience in medical career. (00:26:55) best thing in medical career.

Part 3 of Derek Hockaday's interview of Susan Burge, consultant dermatologist and former Director of Clinical Studies, 22 July 2015 Continuing from part 2. Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) dermatology in Oxford including treatments and the Slade Hospital; (00:06:08) teaching at Oxford; (00:08:55) time as Director of Clinical Studies, 1998.

Part 2 of Derek Hockaday's interview of Susan Burge, consultant dermatologist and former Director of Clinical Studies, 22 July 2015. Continuation of part 1 of interview. Topics discussed include: (00:00:38) Darier disease; (00:03:01) lupus research; (00:05:36) time as a consultant at Stoke Mandeville; (00:07:30) writing project of book on surgery; (00:08:38) time at Duke University, United States; (00:11.25) Stoke Mandeville; (00:14:27) return to Oxford.

Derek Hockaday interviews Susan Burge, consultant dermatologist and former Director of Clinical Studies, 22 July 2015. Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) interest in, and journey into, dermatology; (00:05:17) transformation dermatology at Oxford; (00:06:34) pre-clinical student years; (00:08:58) clinical student years; (00:12:45) fast track medical course; (00:15:25) Radcliffe hospital compared to other hospitals; (00:17:20) dermatology surgery; (00:18:18) nursing in Oxford compared to Bristol.

Derek Hockaday interviews Joan Trowell, consultant physician and former deputy Director of Clinical studies, 5 March 2015 Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) How and why Trowell came to oxford; (00:04:00) memories of Paul Beeson; (00:08:00) comparison between Royal Free and Hammersmith hospitals and Oxford hospitals; (00:11:34) comparison of clinical standards and nursing between Oxford and Hammersmith; (00:13:40) views on the Huts at Walton street; (00:14:55) liver research, anaesthetics; (00:22:50) moving to Headington and travelling around the area; (00:32:12) further research; (00:38:16) role as deputy Director of Clinical Studies and becoming representative for General Medical Council on behalf of Oxford and Cambridge; (00:46:25) gender discrimination in early years and at senior appointment level, racial discrimination; (00:50:15) support and counsel of male students; (00:54:38) Medical Women's Federation; (00:55:25) Oxford Prison Board; (00:57:00) treating of esophageal varices condition; (00:59:43) various roles at the General Medical Council; (01:06:55) medical colleagues; (01:10.40) reflection on career, retirement years, work of Royal Medical Benevolent Fund.

Derek Hockaday continues his interview with Chris Winearls, consultant nephrologist and associate professor of medicine, 4 March 2013. Continuing from part 1, Winearls talks about advice given to final year medical students.

Derek Hockaday interviews Chris Winearls, consultant nephrologist and associate professor of medicine, 4 March 2015. Part 1 of interview. Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) coming to England from South Africa; (00:04:20) DPhil in transplantation; (00:12:26) reflections on medical school and students (00:13:43) nursing in Oxford compared to Cape town; (00:15:01) experiences with senior registrar Bob Simpson; (00:21:20) registrar role in 1979; (00:24:50) work at the Hammersmith hospital and erythropoietin, working with Mary Cotes; (00:30:45) comparing Hammersmith and Oxford upon return to Oxford in 1988; (00:34:51) returning to the kidney unit at Oxford; (00:37:41) balancing clinical and research duties; (00:41:55) transplantation changing the clinical scene; (00:45:10) connection between erythropoietin and oxygen sensing work; (00:47:33) working at Churchill rather than the John Radcliffe; (00:50:17) importance of pathology to renal work; (01:01:43) conferences and media work; (01:04:29) textbooks and editing; (01:08:13) acting as senior principal examiner in medicine and restructuring exams; (01:10:09) work with biochemists; (01:17:07) reflections on medical career.

Derek Hockaday interviews Michael Tunbridge, former Director of Postgraduate Medical Education and Training, University of Oxford, 31 January 2014. Topics discussed include: (00:00:20) first role at Oxford, 1994. (00:03:00) involvement of role in surgery and training; (00:08:35) allocation of sift money in budget; (00:09:43) management during role; (00:13:23) working with civil servants; (00:14:58) involvement in improvements in medical education; (00:19:44) influence of membership exam in British medicine; (00:25:53) comparing Northampton, Reading and London as locations for training; (00:26:46) expansion in consultant grade; (00:28:23) endocrinology qualifications recognised in EU member states; (00:30:48) relationships with regional hospital boards in Oxford; (00:33:00) discipline in the medical profession as a whole; (00:34:19) relationship with Wadham College; (00:36:12) house jobs; (00:39:27) comparisons between Newcastle and Oxford; (00:50:10) change of role of Postgraduate Dean at Oxford Medical School; (00:53:10) final reflections on career. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:24:03-00:24:07; 00:40:22-00:40:25; 00:44:13-00:44:31; 50:00:00-50:11:00.

Derek Hockaday interviews Keith Hawton, consultant psychiatrist and professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, 19 September 2014. Topics discussed include: (00:00:15) why Hawton chose Cambridge, not Oxford, and pre-clinical training; (00:01:28) journey into medicine through experimental psychology; (00:04:20) Oxford Medical School and clinical student years; (00:08:30) surgical house job; (00:10:14) post house job roles, coinciding with psychiatric training scheme, 1971, and research; (00:12:36) relationship between physical and mental illness; (00:15:44) Oxford Department of Psychiatry and Michael Gelder; (00:17:55) MD thesis topic on self harm and suicide research at the Barnes unit; (00:19:35) work of colleagues; (00:23:40) roles in the Department of Psychiatry since 1974; (00:25:58) clinical tutoring and teaching; (00:28:50) Oxbridge student suicides in the 1950s; (00:31:50) suicide and pseudocide; (00:35:41) time abroad in the Netherlands and New Zealand; (00:38:10) pathogenesis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; (00:40:40) national meetings and roles in national groups; (00:42:20) writing and editing; (00:45:57) change in psychiatric awareness from start of career to present day; (00:50:35) current local psychiatric services; (00:54:19) sport.

The final part of Derek Hockaday's interview with Chris Adams, senior neurosurgeon, 26 August 2014. Continuing from part 2. Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) Dick Guy; (00:04:45) changes with building of new John Radcliffe hospital on the Oxford Accident Service; (00:07:00) work on subretinal clotting and haemorrhages; (00:11:07) Assay at Queens Square, University College London on the spine; (00:16:42) Peter Teddy appointment; (00:20:45) pituitary work; (00:22:12) history of epilepsy surgery; (00:25:56) nursing at the John Radcliffe compared to London hospitals; (00:28:25) feelings after a operating; (00:30:32) trigeminal neuralgia; (00:35:13) publications; (00:38:00) emergency team; (00:42:33) private medicine surgery and OxDONS syndrome paper on NHS reforms; (00:49:25) anaesthetists CA worked with; comparing working as a senior house officer in Oxford to London. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:00:18-00:00:32; 00:02:00-00:02:21; 00:08:36-00:08:58; 00:20:32-00:20:44; 00:49:50-00:50:01; 00:50:19-00:52:13.

Derek Hockaday continues his interview of Chris Adams, senior neurosurgeon, 26 August 2014. Part 2 of interview, topics discussed include being a senior house surgeon and microscope operation. Note the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:00:31-00:00:48; 00:05:58-00:06:05; 00:06:24-00:06:44.

Derek Hockaday interviews Chris Adams, senior neurosurgeon, 26 August 2014. Part 1 of interview, a discussion about why and how Chris Adams came to Oxford and the Radcliffe Infirmary.

Part 2 of Derek Hockaday's interview with Hywel Jones, consultant geriatrician, 20 May 2014. Continuing from part 1. Topics discussed include: 00:00:00- improvement of medicine and progress in the last thirty years, risk, treatment plans and guidelines; supporting trainees and junior doctors and MD Thesis.

Derek Hockaday interviews Hywel Jones, consultant geriatrician, 20 May 2014. Part 1 of interview. Topics discussed include: (00:00:15) coming to the Oxford hospitals; (00:04:35) time at High Wycombe hospital; (00:07:40) standard of Oxford medical care in comparison to other hospitals; (00:11:52) work of social services with geriatricians (00:16:16) role of multi-disciplinary teams in managing care; (00:24:00) colleagues in first years at Oxford; (00:25:30) scope of involvement in general medicine as well as geriatric, discussion of specialisms and acute medicine; (00:31:19) dealing with cottage hospitals, the running of community hospitals; (00:36:35) work with David Weatherall and John Ledingham; (00:38:20) modern imaging; (00:41:02) effects of administrators and administration process; (00:47:53) rising cost of health care and expectations of public; (00:51:08) judging the biological age of a patient as opposed to chronological age; (00:54:35) effects of anaesthetics, post operative delirium; (00:57:29) end point of dementia and delirium patients; (01:02:26) effect of decline of male smoking; (01:04:35) coming to Oxford for consultant job and moving to Thame; (01:05:48) involvement in administrative committees; (01:09:54) development of Level 4 Ward at John Radcliffe hospital; (01:12:30) Care Quality Commission rating; (01:15:20) inspections in general; (01:19:21) progress in medicine in the last thirty years. Note the following section of audio is redacted: 00:43:02-00:43:15.

Derek Hockaday interviews Richard Boyd, emeritus professor, lecturer in Medicine and fellow of Brasenose College, 30 August 2013. Topics discussed include: (00:00:08) childhood, coming to Merton College, Oxford; (00:01:56) comparing teaching methods between Cambridge and Oxford; (00:03:00) entrance into Oxford including interview; (00:04:18) practical work; (00:05:25) medical schools and teaching staff; (00:06:50) pharmacology; (00:09:25) BSc research (00:10:59) Path and Bac course; (00:12:00) moving to University College Hospital London, 1967 and comparisons with Oxford; (00:16:08) time in Papa New Guinea; (00:17:56) PhD thesis; (00:20:22) Rod Porter as head of clinical department; (00:21:58) Job in Dundee department of Physiology; (00:24:10) returning to Oxford from Dundee; (00:25:58) role as medical tutor for Brasenose College; (00:33:39) cholera treatment; (00:36:49) college life; (00:41:25) effect of internet on medicine; (00:43:04) changes seen in the Oxford Medical School; (00:44:52) pre-clinical students and changes to the pre-clinical courses; (00:52:00) setting up the synoptic paper on pre-clinical course; (00:52:50) evolution of Oxford pre clinical school compared to Cambridge; (00:54:25) writing and editing; (00:55:56) involvement in grant awarding bodies.

Derek Hockaday interviews George Alberti, research endocrinologist and former President of the Royal College of Physicians, 24 May 2013. Topics discussed include: (00:00:00) admission into Balliol to study medicine, preliminaries and early years in Oxford, Sandy Oxton (00:05:15) Coolidge Scholarship to go to United States; (00:07:50) Biochemistry and DPhil project at Hans Krebs lab on amino acid metabolism in mitochondria; (00:12:12) work ethic and start of clinical work, involvement in teaching tutorials; (00:16:37) Endocrinology and diabetes research; (00:20:00) finals; (00:21:33) teaching staff; (00:25:23) visits to United States, post-qualification fellowship applications; (00:27:35) research and clinics in Boston; (00:31:57) returning to Oxford to do clinical research; (00:35:40) comparing the Radcliffe and Oxford in general to other places clinically (United States, Southampton, Brighton); (00:36:43) Oxford undergraduate course as preparation for a career in medicine; (00:38:07) clinical research at the Hans Krebs unit; (00:42:10) reasons for leaving Oxford; (00:44:50) influence of multiple analyser on clinical biochemistry; (00:46:27) progression of the medical school since leaving Oxford; (00:48:25) reflection on teaching pre-clinical tutorials. Note that the following sections of audio are redacted: 00:09:29-00:09:35; 00:15:56-00:16:18; 00:23:40-00:23:42; 00:49:33-00:49:38.

John Oxbury interviews John Spalding, former consultant and research neurologist for Oxford United Hospitals, 26 July 2011. Topics discussed include: (00:00:13) experience of neurology in Oxford from mid 1940s, student houseman job and being a house surgeon for Hugh Cairns at Radcliffe infirmary during the war; (00:02:00) Hugh Cairns; (00:04:21) jobs after qualifying; (00:06:20) working in the military head injury hospital during second world war; (00:10:14) Spalding's papers on pheochromocytoma and number forms; (00:21:56) Nuffield 3 being built, allocated space for neurology; (00:22:44) polio; (00:31:00) the East Radcliffe ventilator; (00:34:30) the Polio Fund; (00:43:50) treating patients with tetanus and Myasthenia gravis; (00:47:42) BBC 'Your life in their hands' television show; (00:50:21) investigating blood pressure when treating patients with tetanus and Guillain-Barre syndrome with Geoffrey George; (01:01:07) time with Honor Smith in Morocco investigating outbreak of paralysis; (01:09:14) balancing research and clinical work as a neurologist; (01:15:00) post retirement life. The following sections of audio are redacted: 00:08:12-00:09:04; 00:17:16-00:18:12; 00:40:50-00:42:30; 01:11:40-01:12.00.