Lecture Archives - Croydon Medical Society https://www.croydonmedicalsociety.co.uk/category/lecture/ A forum for Doctors in Croydon Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:37:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.croydonmedicalsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-croydon-medical-society-favicon-32x32.png Lecture Archives - Croydon Medical Society https://www.croydonmedicalsociety.co.uk/category/lecture/ 32 32 Talk on Charles Dickens, “Bleak Health” https://www.croydonmedicalsociety.co.uk/talk-charles-dickens-bleak-health/ Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:37:07 +0000 https://www.croydonmedicalsociety.co.uk/?p=2712 Dr Nick Cambridge joined us at the Croydon Trainers away day at Cumberland Lodge. The title of his talk was ‘Bleak Health: Charles Dickens in the Medical World’. He pointed out that in Dickens time important developments took place in public health and medicine.

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Dr Agnelo Fernandes (President), Dr Nick Cambridge (Hon. Archivist)and Dr Sabitha Michael (Social Secretary)

‘Bleak Health: Charles Dickens in the Medical World’

Dr Nick Cambridge joined us at the Croydon Trainers away day at Cumberland Lodge. The title of his talk was ‘Bleak Health: Charles Dickens in the Medical World’. He pointed out that in Dickens’ time important developments took place in public health and medicine. They included the 1848 Public Health Act, the introduction of anaesthetics, the use of antiseptics, the reform of the nursing profession by Florence Nightingale and the formation of the General Medical Council in 1858.

Dickens wrote 15 novels and Nick highlighted some of the medical conditions Dickens described including ataxia with cousin Feenix in Dombey and Son, the Pickwickian syndrome or obesity hypoventilation syndrome with Joe in Pickwick Papers and Sloppy, with Marfan Syndrome, in Our Mutual Friend.
Dickens tried to maintain a healthy lifestyle by taking a daily shower bath, drinking cold water morning and night, walking long distances up to 30miles and swimming. However, having read over 14,000 letters in the 12-volume Pilgrim edition of Dickens’s letters Nick has discovered 20 different conditions that Dickens suffered from including OCD, PTSD, depression, anal fistula, haemorrhoids, renal colic, gout, TIA and finally his death from apoplexy.

The Q&A discussion was lively with many questions including how we would manage Dicken’s if he were a patient today.

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]]> Review of October 2017 Meeting https://www.croydonmedicalsociety.co.uk/review-of-october-2017-meeting/ Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:55:41 +0000 http://s772424403.websitehome.co.uk/?p=926 The post Review of October 2017 Meeting appeared first on Croydon Medical Society.

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Entrance to Shirley Oaks Hospital

Review of October 2017 Meeting

Our speaker was Professor Prokar Dasgupta who is an Academic Urologist based in London, UK. He was appointed as Consultant Urologist to Guy’s Hospital, London in 2002 where he pioneered robotic urological surgery within the UK. He is credited with the “Dasgupta technique” of injecting Botulinum toxin in overactive bladders. He became the first Professor of Robotic Surgery and Urological Innovation at King’s College London in 2009 and is the Chairman of the King’s-Vattikuti Institute of Robotic Surgery, the only such centre in the UK. He has >800 publications and >£20 million in grant income. He is trustee to various charities including the Prostate Cancer Research Centre. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the BJUI.

Title: Robotic Surgery – 15 years later

This lecture described the evolution of robotic surgery from the very first randomised trial to Telerobotics between London and Baltimore through to the development of the da Vinci system and its impact on surgery and the arrival of new robots on the horizon.

The speaker focused on three main themes- 1. Scientific advances in robotics, 2. Smarter training in robotic surgery and 3. Scientific evaluation of clinical outcomes.

Professor Dasgupta said that the skill of the surgeon was paramount and if you had a da Vinci robot in your department you needed to do at least 200 operations per year to make it cost effective.

Mr Abdul Sultan gave the vote of thanks.

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