Ivor lewis surgeon biography books
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Ivor Lewis (–) was a Welsh surgeon....
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Ivor Lewis, was born at Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, in October 1895, the only son of a farmer who was devoted to music and Welsh literature, and of a devout mother who always hoped that her son would ultimately take to the pulpit.
After early education at Llandello Grammar School, where he did well in both science and the classics, he went on to University College, Cardiff, for preclinical study and then to University College Hospital, London, where he gained the Liston Gold Medal in surgery before qualifying in 1920.
Inspired by Wilfred Trotter and Gwynne Williams, he determined on a career in surgery and was astute enough to see the potentialities of the developing municipal hospital service. Whilst resident surgical officer at Lewisham he passed the MD and, later, the MS examinations and was then appointed surgeon and medical director of the City Hospital in Plymouth.
He there introduced daily visiting of patients by their relatives many years before this practice
