Andrew Diamond

bmj;383/oct10_10/p2312/FAF1faAndrew William Diamond was appointed as a consultant in anaesthesia at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, in 1968. He enjoyed a year working in Denmark before taking up his consultant post in Bristol. He had considered a career in intensive care medicine, but his main interest was the control and management of pain. He was skilled in the use of regional anaesthetic blocks after his experience in Denmark. At the time, regional anaesthesia was uncommon in the UK—very few patients were comfortable with the idea of being awake during their surgery. The opposite was true in Denmark and the other Scandinavian countries, where patients were more concerned about the risks of having general anaesthesia. Diamond was soon identified as the doctor who could help patients suffering from intractable pain. His interests remained broad, and in 1973 he published papers on prehospital intensive care for victims of traffic crashes.Diamond was an advocate for…
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