Anthea Mowat: anaesthetist, medical politician, and campaigner for equality

bmj;382/aug08_4/p1825/FAF1faAs an anaesthetist, chair of the BMA representative body, and privately, Anthea Mowat was a dazzling puzzle solver. She loved Sudoku and puzzle books. Her husband, Andrew, a retired GP, said, “She would fly through them in the time it would take me to get through the first two questions. She saw work as a series of puzzles to solve.”They met at medical school where, perhaps unusually for a student, Anthea devoured Agatha Christie books. She read, Andrew believes, most if not all of the Queen of Crime’s 75 or so novels. This was, he says, characteristic of the woman who also became secretary of the Women’s Medical Federation (WMF) and chair of the World Medical Association.PuzzlesA whodunit, he explained, follows the paradigm of the classical detective story: the crime becomes a puzzle to be solved through questions. Mowat was as compassionate as she was forensic. BMA Council chair Philip…
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