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Are doctors medical detectives?

Do doctors really identify medical conditions in the same way that detectives solve crimes? Neurologist Jules Montague makes her diagnosis.

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Born different

For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.

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Wonder years

The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.

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Disability, education and prejudice

In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.

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  • Students in theTeaching laboratory, Medical School, Yakusu Hospital, Yakusu, Belgian Congo
  • Students in theTeaching laboratory, Medical School, Yakusu Hospital, Yakusu, Belgian Congo
  • George Purdey Field, Dean of St Mary's Hospital Medical School from 1883-1889
  • Qasr al-'Ayni Hospital and Medical School, Cairo: design for new buildings. Gouache after J. T. Cackett & R. Burns Dick, 1922.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: the medical school, south of the main building. Photolithograph by Sprague & Co., 1890.
  • Historical account of Charing Cross Hospital and Medical School (University of London) : original plan and statutes, rise and progress; founded 1818; with which is included some account of the origin of the other hospitals and schools in London / [William Hunter].
  • Guy's Hospital gazette. Special number, In commemoration of the bicentenary of the hospital & the centenary of the medical school, 1725-1925 / editor: Leslie George Housden ; sub-editor: Gordon Gould Cameron.
  • Guy's Hospital gazette. Special number, In commemoration of the bicentenary of the hospital & the centenary of the medical school, 1725-1925 / editor: Leslie George Housden ; sub-editor: Gordon Gould Cameron.
  • Alfred Hospital Training School for Nurses, Melbourne... : this is to certify that... has served a three years term of training as a pupil nurse in the wards of this hospital (including the nursing of sick children and gynaecological patients) also in the operation theatre and out-patients and casualty departments... qualifying her to act as a skilled medical & surgical nurse.
  • London: plan of the Hospitals & Medical Schools, 1836-1837.
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