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Q J Med 2000; 93: 695-698
© 2000 Association of Physicians

Occasional paper

A.M. Cooke: an informal memoir

D. Pyke

From the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK

I shall try to explain the unique appeal of one physician, Alexander Cooke. He was not famous for any specific reason—no great discovery, no famous positions held, no unique talent. Yet by all those who knew him, or even those who only encountered him lightly, he was cherished.

He was physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, for over 30 years. Alec Cooke told the story of his professional life in My first 75 years of medicine, published by the Royal College of Physicians in 1994. I was his registrar from 1952 to 7 and his friend for the rest of his life. He was born in Oxford in 1899, and wanted to live to be 100 and three months so that he could have lived in three centuries. Later he lost this ambition, and at the age of 991/4, he was happy to go.

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