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A dedicated doctor who began working as an NHS surgeon in the month of its inception continues to work as a medical professor five days a week – 71 years later.
Professor Harold Ellis, 93, qualified as a doctor in July 1948 and immediately began training as a surgeon in the service’s earliest days.
Now seven decades on he is still working and is believed to be one of the longest serving medical professionals in the UK.
He worked at hospitals around the country and ran the surgical unit at the now-closed Westminster Hospital alongside the top job of professor of surgery – responsible for teaching and research – which he began in 1960.
He continued as a surgeon and professor of surgery within the hospital until his retirement in 1989.
The sprightly granddad-of-six then began teaching anatomy at Cambridge University.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/m...o-work-five-days-a-week-71-years-later/19/08/
😱 🙂
Professor Harold Ellis, 93, qualified as a doctor in July 1948 and immediately began training as a surgeon in the service’s earliest days.
Now seven decades on he is still working and is believed to be one of the longest serving medical professionals in the UK.
He worked at hospitals around the country and ran the surgical unit at the now-closed Westminster Hospital alongside the top job of professor of surgery – responsible for teaching and research – which he began in 1960.
He continued as a surgeon and professor of surgery within the hospital until his retirement in 1989.
The sprightly granddad-of-six then began teaching anatomy at Cambridge University.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/m...o-work-five-days-a-week-71-years-later/19/08/
😱 🙂
