Royal College of Physicians

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mean, suddenly every time I went abroad to either give a lecture, talk, talk about my research, maybe talk about examinations with the Royal College of Physicians and so on, they always came up and said, can you come and see this hospital or this medical school? So obviously they were using the textbook all over the world.

And so it gave me a chance to

travel.

The irony of ironies, I suppose, is what happened to William Burke.

Yeah, so there's a couple of great accounts in the archives of the Royal College of Physicians in England.

One in particular is a man called Joseph Naples, who was part of a resurrectionist gang around London.

Tuesday the 7th of January, 1812, intoxicated all day.

You've got a research degree in pharmacology.

You're also a medical doctor and you're a member of the Royal College of Physicians, which is the consultant level qualification in the UK.

So you are an absolute 100% genuine physician.

So thank you, Nigel, for coming on very much.

so that we could maintain this richness, this diversity of input from many different disciplines, that you could also do it as a primary specialty, and that was a key issue, because unless you can do it as a primary specialty, you're not a specialty, and that we would maintain very close working relationships with many other disciplines.

Obviously, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons was supportive, but less engaged, I would say.

Emergency medicine, which is one of your disciplines, Charles, very important, and acute medicine as well.

So we wanted to keep together those individuals whose skills and training reflected that of the patient pathway.

Ein Arzt, junger Mann, sagen Sie? Ein Tierarzt, ohne Zweifel.

Madam, ich bin Absolvent des Royal College of Physicians.

Ich bin auf Menschen spezialisiert.

Und Sie ermitteln, junger Mann, ich verstehe.

And I've got quite a few of them or I've done the exams for a few of them, which comes from displaying a level of competence when you're training, whether that be medicine.

So that would be the member of the Royal College of Physicians, MRCP.

Or in my case, well, I've done MRCP, but also FRCA, the Fellow of the Royal College of Anesthetists.

And what's really interesting is that I sent a LinkedIn post, nothing to do with, you know, sort of the college specifically, but talking about postnominals in the context of who we are and what our identity is.

It wasn't just medical subscriptions, but the topic of what I was paying for my medical subscriptions came up when I was having a chat to Emma, my wife, about it.

And she said to me, why are you paying so much in the form of medical subscriptions? You're paying the BMA.

At that time, I was paying the Royal College of Anesthetists, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, and even the Royal College of Physicians.

And that was amounting to quite a bit of money.

well.

Well, at the RCP, the Royal College of Physicians, they have the human version of that.

Right.

It's not like an exhibit, but it's just...

So I said to the chap, I said, how dare you ask me that? Do you care more about my daughter than I do? How dare you? And I didn't get the job, which was a good thing because the next one was the better job that I wanted.

I did then talk to the president of the Royal College of Physicians because we didn't have the pediatric college then, who I used to know because I did a lot of work on low paramide and antidiarrhea.

And they did the clinical studies and I did the animal studies.

So he said, well, funny you should say that.

Books that had belonged to Dee passed into other collections.

On examples now studied at the Royal College of Physicians, a later owner attempted to erase or overwrite Dee's name.

A mark of possession became the site of an effort to conceal an earlier possession.

The books had survived, but their relationship to their former owner had been obscured.