Alan Graham Apley

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Alan Graham Apley (born November 10, 1914 in London , † December 20, 1996 ) was an English orthopedist and editor .

Life

Apley was born in London to Jewish immigrants from Poland. He worked at Roehampton Priory Hospital and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Burma in Burma , where he was wounded. Upon his return, he developed a successful orthopedic course at Rowley Bristow Orthopedic Hospital . He also built one of the first emergency rooms in southern England built according to functional aspects. In 1972 he was inducted into the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England . In the same year he became director at St Thomas' Hospital . As the successor to Reginald Watson-Jones , he was editor of the British edition ofThe Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery .

Fonts

  • Watson Jones Lecture: Surgeons and Writers . Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br) 67-B (1985), pp. 140-144; Translated by Rüdiger Döhler in: Bulletin of the German Society for Orthopedics and Traumatology 4/1986, pp. 46–56
  • Orthopedics , German edition. Weinheim 1991

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to information from the Royal College of Surgeons of England
personal data
SURNAME Apley, Alan Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English orthopedist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1996