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Informationen zum Autor John Marks Klappentext This is the autobiography of John Marks, the British doctor who over the course of his medical career became deeply involved in British medical politics and eventually rose to become chairman of council of the British Medical Association. As demonstrated by the sub-title, Britain's National Health Service, which started on the very same day Marks was licensed to practice, is almost as important a character in the book as Marks himself. Zusammenfassung John Marks is something of a national treasure Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 An outdated constitution and Sir Paul Chambers’ report.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.
