Janet MacKenzie Clark

bmj;381/apr28_48/p903/FAF1faJanet was born in Sheffield to John and Ursula Gray, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon and a GP, respectively. She was educated at Wentworth Boarding School, Bournemouth, and in 1954, after completing her A levels, was accepted to study medicine at Edinburgh University.In September 1961 she married John Gordon Clark, a contemporary medic embarking on a career as a surgeon. They settled in Edinburgh, and Janet worked through her house jobs before becoming a research assistant for the British Empire Cancer Campaign, where she worked in the pathology laboratory electron microscopy unit.Children followed, and John took a post as a surgeon with the relatively innovative renal transplant unit. The dangers to staff of infection from immunosuppressed patients was not well appreciated at the time, and in 1970 he contracted hepatitis B. He died within a week from fulminant hepatitis at the age of 33, leaving Janet a widow, a…
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