Jill Brock

bmj;383/nov09_13/p2575/FAF1faAfter graduating Jill Brock (née Lewis) volunteered at Jane Furse Memorial Hospital in South Africa. She subsequently trained at the Middlesex Hospital and then in Oxford, where she specialised in clinical oncology. Back surgery left her in a plaster bed for months. A neuroradiologist, Laurie Brock, who had had similar surgery himself, was asked to review her images. He started visiting, and they were married eight months later (1968).They moved to the Wirral where Jill was appointed a consultant at Clatterbridge Hospital, treating adults with breast and urological cancers and paediatric patients at Alder Hey. She was the founding medical director of Wirral Hospice St John’s, continuing that role alongside her oncology work for 12 years. She was clinical tutor and programme director for many years and a senior examiner for the Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy.Laurie sadly died in 1996. Jill continued working until age 69. On retirement she threw…
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