4 - Interview with Peter Gatenby

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4 - Interview with Peter Gatenby

Transcript of an interview conducted by Dr Susan Mullaney with Professor Peter Gatenby, retired physician. In the interview Professor Gatenby talked about a number of topics, including: - his early family life and medical education during the Second World War; - experience of working in Steevens' Hospital, the Meath Hospital, the Rotunda Hospital, and Baggot Street Hospital, all in Dublin; - time as a clinical tutor and later a Professor of Medicine for Trinity College Dublin; - the introduction of penicillin and streptomycin; - time spent working for the WHO [World Health Organisation] in Delhi, India, in New York, USA, and in Rome, Italy; - books he wrote on the history of the Trinity Medical School and the Meath Hospital; - the transplantation of organs; - fears surrounding the spread of tuberculosis in Dublin; - interest in anaemia and neurology; - his wife, children and grandchildren; - social life

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Reference Number: LMH/4

Date: 18 March 2013

Creator Name: Gatenby, Peter Bronte, 1923-2015

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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