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QJM Advance Access originally published online on March 24, 2009
QJM 2009 102(5):365-366; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcn167
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A chance meeting

D. Geraint James

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The meeting was the weekly medical and surgical staff conference held on Wednesday, 22 March 1961, at 5.15 p.m. in the Courtauld Lecture Theatre of the Middlesex Hospital, London W1. It was the routine weekly staff meeting of Professor Alan Kekwick's Department of Medicine, but this one turned out to be memorable. The notice board poster stated that Mr D.P. Burkitt, Makerere College, Uganda would talk on ‘The commonest children's cancer in Tropical Africa: a hitherto unrecognised cancer’.

Denis Burkitt (1911–93) was an Ulster graduate of Trinity College, Dublin in 1935 and FRCS (Ed) in 1938. He served with the RAMC in East Africa during World War II, and afterwards in the Colonial . . . [Full Text of this Article]

D. Geraint James


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