Gerald Sandler

bmj;383/nov21_7/p2746/FAF1faGerald Sandler (“Gerry”) was born and raised in the East End of London. He won a scholarship to the Middlesex School of Medicine, where he achieved many awards and the school’s gold medal. He met his wife, Ella, a trainee nurse, on a student attachment at the Whittington Hospital. After compulsory military service with the Royal Army Medical Corps based in Colchester, he completed his cardiology training in Sheffield and Leicester. He was appointed as a consultant in Barnsley in 1967, where he worked until he retired in 1992. He introduced the first mobile coronary care ambulance on the British mainland to Barnsley in 1970. He was an adviser on the Committee on Safety of Medicines and in later years undertook industrial tribunal work, assessing coal miners in the Yorkshire area. In retirement he travelled extensively and pursued his hobbies of ballroom dancing and woodwork. He was predeceased by Ella,…
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