Balkrishna Kantilal Parikh

bmj;378/sep20_14/o2265/FAF1faBalkrishna Kantilal Parikh (“Bal”) was born was born in Patan, Gujarat, India. He qualified from Kasturba Medical College, Karnataka, south India in 1958 (as part of the first intake of this new medical college in 1953). He arrived in the UK in 1959, undertaking surgical training in London, Dewsbury, Hitchin, Taunton, and Hull, among other places. He met his future wife, Anne, at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital, where she was a theatre sister. On obtaining his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1965 he returned to India with Anne, to establish a plastic surgery practice in Mumbai. It was not meant to be, and they returned to the UK in late 1968. Bal took a surgical registrar post at St Lawrence’s Hospital for specialist plastic surgery and burns in Chepstow in 1969. As plastic surgery posts were difficult to find, he switched specialty to accident and emergency medicine,…
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