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'A mysterious outbreak led to three nurses becoming infected'
On 27 August 1977, the BMJ published an editorial on an outbreak of a severe haemorrhagic infectious disease.
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'The massive death rate from pneumonia forced government action'
The massive death rate from chest disease and pneumonia were among the factors that forced the government to pass the Clean Air Act in 1956.
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'The BMJ saw dangers in a state medical service'
The 5th of July is the most important date in the history of the NHS.
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'The BMJ said it was demeaning for doctors to appear on the stage'
On 11 February 1958, the BBC first televised Your Life in Their Hands, presented by Charles Fletcher from the Royal College of Physicians.
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'Adams was convicted for prescription fraud'
John Bodkin Adams was responsible for a new concept in medical management - “doing a Bodkin”.
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'Clark received the first total replacement of an artificial heart'
On 1 December 1982, a snowy night in Salt Lake City, Utah, Dr Barney Clark’s heart was giving out and he was moved up the operating list to receive the first total replacement of an artificial heart in an emergency all night operation.
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'The formation of the RCGP followed letters in the medical press'
On 19 November 1952 the College of General Practitioners was established quietly at a meeting at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.
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'A raft of scandals surfaced in hospitals for the elderly'
On 24 November 1965 Lord Strabogli wrote to The Times. Public concern about the treatment of the elderly in hospitals had been growing, though apparently the government saw no problems.
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'Bourne agreed to perform an abortion and was prosecuted'
On 27 October 1967 a private member’s bill, introduced by David Steel but backed by the government, was, after a heated debate and a free vote, passed. When the act came into effect, it made abortion legal in Great Britain.
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'The report established the principles of NHS management'
The 1983 Griffiths review of management was the direct outcome of the chaos of industrial action.
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'Ambrose made history by carrying out the first computed tomography scan'
On 1 October 1971 Jamie Ambrose, a consultant radiologist at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital in Wimbledon, made medical history by carrying out the first computed tomography scan on a live patient, revealing a detailed image of a brain tumour.
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'It was the nadir for the GPs, but they also had their supporters'
The Collings Report published in 1950 led some to feel general practice was past saving and not worth the effort.
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'Wherever there was social disparity, there was disparity in health'
August 1980 will forever be remembered by public health doctors for it was then that the Department of Health published the Black report.
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Blogs'A shortage of doctors was producing “a pretty ghastly awful picture”'
It has always been wise to avoid involvement in medical manpower planning.
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Born on the 25th of July
The world’s first “test tube baby”, Louise Brown, was born shortly before midnight in Oldham and District General Hospital on 25 July 1978.
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Blogs'Fifty years passed before smoke-free public places were achieved'
On 26 June 1954 the main article in the British Medical Journal was on the mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits.