Royal College of Surgeons of England

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this is a wild one happy with a two hundred thirty seventh to william bland the born in london important figure important family his dad was an obstetrician and a medical writer his grandfather was a prominent attorney his brother was a teacher his sister married the governor of the bank of england so a lot of pressure to do some remarkable in this family he chose medicine Passed his exams at the Royal College of Surgeons in England.

He became a naval surgeon in 1812.

Stationed on the ship Her Majesty's Service HESPAR on the East Indies Station.

And then we came back, finished the assessments, and we had to do a top-up program, which was then run by Kent Surrey and Sussex Deanery, which covered things that, of course, didn't cover, such as British law legislation, medical emergencies to UK standards, and cross-infection measures, radiography, all those things that we did cover, but it wasn't to the UK required standard for GDC registration.

And then from that, we sat an exam with the Royal College of Surgeons.

So not only did we have to pass the George Brown, we had to pass the Royal College of Surgeons exams as well.

And like I said, the first cohorts through registering were in 2007.

And then I registered in 2008 and I finished the update and was fortunate to land on my feet in a practice which had a very open-minded lead dentist, a practice owner.

He graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School in 1946.

He obtained his membership as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in England in 1949.

He spent most of his life as a cardiac surgeon in London, first at Guy's Hospital and later as the senior surgeon at the National Heart Hospital.

He is known throughout the cardiac surgical world for his pioneering work in developing the pulmonary autograft for replacement of the aortic valve, an operation now known as the Ross procedure.

I think it was called the E. Oliver Ashe Scholarship.

It was a Kimberley-based scholarship, I think.

And so I decided to go to England and do my fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons if I could within two years and come back and practice in South Africa.

Well, I got to England, worked hard and got the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons within my two years, but by then I was launched sort of in England.

But the general explanation that's put out for a lot of these things is that just that it was back in the day and they didn't know what they were looking at.

And when I went through and researched from the Royal College of Surgeons to see what kinds of things they would have done, what anatomical things they would have known, I don't think you can dismiss all of their findings like that.

I also think that there were military men involved who would have seen a lot of dead people on the battlefield and would have been very used to conducting autopsies.

So just bear that in mind, okay? Because we're going to find some very weird things when we get into the autopsies.

For bodies to be stolen now.

We're not going to dig down and check is like Mary Doyle still there We're just presuming everyone's where they're still meant to be but we don't believe anyone's ever been robbed From Glasnevin or the likes of Mount Jerome, but it's the the legacy of the past the murder act for example and I would mention people in positions of political power or maybe in a legal profession like a lot of the professors of anatomy and Trinity are Trinity College in Dublin or the Royal College of Surgeons.

You know, they were probably close friends with people at the bench here.

So if you were a man of the law up here, you're probably mates with Dr. Cunningham down in Trinity College.

Bully's Acre is a great example of that.

And they'd wait to catch people jumping over the wall and then they'd have their own kind of vigilante-style justice.

And on one occasion, the porter in the Royal College of Surgeons, his name is Luke Redmond, The anti-resurrectionist mob got word that he was kind of turning a blind eye and allowing the bodies to come in, a safe passage for the bodies.

And they took him out along the River Liffey and they dunked him, then they flogged him and he died.