Croydon Medical Society News
Read the latest news from the Croydon Medical Society about social events, talks, dinners and our discussion forums throughout the year.
Talk on Charles Dickens, “Bleak Health”
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.
Dr Ranee Thakar next President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Ranee Thakar is a Consultant Obstetrician and Urogynaecologist at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s University of London.
The medical history of Charles Dickens and his family
Congratulations to Dr Nicholas Cambridge who recently had his book Bleak Health, the medical history of Charles Dickens and his family published.
Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 Dr Nick Cambridge
Congratulations Nick on your well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award. Nick is a long-standing member of CMS and is a past President and currently is our Honorary Archivist.
Christmas Quiz Night 2021
Well done to all those who attended the excellent Christmas Quiz which Dr Khalid Khan must have spent many, many hours researching. I
Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 Dr Peter Boffa
Dr Peter Boffa was proposed by Dr Rupert Courtney Evans for the CMS Lifetime Achievement Award – a proposal based on his personal and professional knowledge of Peter’s skills.
Lifetime Achievement Award 2021 Mr Abdul Sultan
Abdul graduated in South Africa and came to England in 1984. He completed his postgraduate training at St George’s Hospital with Professor Stuart Stanton.
Doctors’ Photography Competition – now ended
Competition now ended. Theme: “Medicine in Croydon” before or during the pandemic.
World Humanitarian Drive Awards
International Day of Conscience WHD Awards On Monday 5th April, the World Humanitarian Drive (WHD) ran an online event, co-hosted by WHD patron,...
What Croydon can learn from Covid-19
What Croydon can learn from Covid-19 – Zoom Meeting Zoom Meeting - 25th November 2020 On the 25th of November we had our second virtual meeting of...
Epidemics, Archbishops and the East India Company
Dr Alfred Carpenter was a Croydon doctor for 30yrs from 1852-83 and then became a consulting physician until his death in 1892, age 66.
Dr John Manners RIP
Dr John Manners RIP It was only a few weeks ago that Dr John Manners was presented with an Engraved Tankard to acknowledge his many years of service...
Presentation to Dr John Manners
Presentation to Dr John Manners On the afternoon of the 8th July Anne and I travelled separately to the home of Dr John Manners, past President and...
Lifetime-achievement award 2020
Lifetime Achievement Award 2020– Dr Agnelo Fernandes Message written by Dr Peter Boffa It is with great pleasure that I proposed Dr Agnelo Fernandes...
Christmas Quiz Evening 2019
There was an excellent turnout to this year’s Quiz Night. It was held at The Cedars School with 55 members and guests taking part. It was a fun evening and highly competitive.
Primary Care Reforms’ using art to explain
Nav gave a very entertaining talk on lessons learnt from changes in the health service illustrated using art. Nav showed us his wide knowledge of art, for which he clearly has a passi
Feeding tubes for minimally conscious patients
Professor Jenny Kitzinger was our October Speaker and she talked about decision making in tube fed patients who have prolonged disorders of consciousness – law ethics and professional guidance.
Over £2500 raised for Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
After several weeks of training the 4th August finally arrived. I was dropped off at 6am at the southern entrance of the Rotherhithe Tunnel, closed to traffic for the day,
Prudential Cycle Ride
On 4th August the Croydon Medical Society President, Mr Peter Boffa will riding in the Prudential RideLondon 100 mile cycle ride in memory of his wife Pauline who died just over 2 years ago.
Annual Dinner 2019
The last event of the President’s year is of course the Annual Dinner and this year it was held at Purley Downs Golf Club for the first time.
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Programme of Events for 2022
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Wednesday 7th September
Talk by Miss Ranee Thakar FRCOG
Title: “Women as Leaders".
Venue: Shirley Oaks Hospital
Starts at 19.30 hrs
Wednesday 12th October
Talk by Dr John Spicer
Title: "The medicine we practice, wherever we do it, is not short of ethical challenge and this has been particularly evident through the pandemic of recent years. How we think about these challenges depends, among other things, on the philosophers of morality that doctors have not traditionally studied very much."
Venue: Shirley Oaks Hospital
Starts at 19.30 hrs
Wednesday 9th November
Talk by Dr Adrian Boyle, President of RCEM
Title: “Where are we with Urgent & Emergency Care?”
Venue: PGMC at Croydon University Hospital.
Starts at 19.30 hrs