1st Edition
The NHS - Beginning, Middle and End? The Autobiography of Dr John Marks
By John Marks
Copyright 2008
290 Pages
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CRC Press
284 Pages
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CRC Press
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John Marks is something of a national treasure. Warm, funny, passionate, opinionated and occasionally contrary, he is a man whose life for more than 40 years marched in beat with that of the National Health Service. There is scarcely a medical issue or controversy in which John Marks was not involved. Abortion law reform, the doctors' 1970s revolt against the General Medical Council, the... Read more
1925-1943 My childhood and life as an evacuee. University and the army. From lorry driver to principal in general practice. My involvement in abortion law reform. I get involved in medical politics. I get started in medical politics at a national level. A Royal College, an academic approach and a doctorate. Early attempts at NHS reform and heart transplants. An outdated constitution and Sir Paul Chambers’ report. I become involved in national negotiations. I appear before a disciplinary body and I lose some friends. I represent the profession at home and abroad. AIDS and the BMA. A Royal sesquicentennial year. International problems and political speculation. Two crises and one election. Princess Diana opens the library and I have a rough ARM. The approaching storm. The Storm breaks: The White Paper. The Profession rejects the Reforms. The campaign continues. The Bill and reactions to it. The campaign continues: mysterious faxes and the Oxford debate. My last few months in the chair. I am a past chairman. A variety of activities including boxing lecturing and a disputed SRM. Doctors in the Dock. A quiet retirement, a general election and a question mark.
Biography
John Marks
