6 - Interview with William Hederman

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6 - Interview with William Hederman

Transcript of an interview conducted by Dr Susan Mullaney with Mr William Hederman, a retired cardiac surgeon. In the interview Mr Hederman talked about a number of topics, including: - the generations of medics in his family; - medical education in UCD [University College Dublin]; - experience gained while a student in the Mater Misercordiae Hospital and the Coombe Hospital, both in Dublin City, and in St Michael's Hospital, Dun Laoghaire; - time spent working in the Prince of Wales Hospital in London; the Mater Misercordiae Hospital, Dublin,; and in Denver, Colorado, USA; - treatment of TB lung by pneumothorax; - new methods in cardiac surgery; - pioneering work in vascular surgery; - the change brought about by the development of specialisation in the medical profession; - the introduction of antibiotics; - prostate surgery; - the eradication of tuberculosis by streptomycin; - life in Ireland during the Second World War and social changes in his lifetime; - recollections of polio treatment; - opinions on Noel Browne's time as Minister for Health, 1948-1951; - the involvement of his wife Carmencita in politics, and in particular her time as Lord Mayor of Dublin during the city's millenium year of 1988.

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Reference Number: LMH/6

Date: 21 January 2013

Creator Name: Hederman, William, b.1928

Creator Name: Mullaney, Susan

Copyright: Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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