Cedrick Reginald Martys

bmj;384/feb16_8/q387/FAF1faCedrick Reginald Martys studied medicine at Sheffield University, after working there in the pharmacology department for one year. He also met his future wife, Shirley, there and they married in 1968, just after he graduated. He completed his GP training in Stratford-upon-Avon, after which they returned to their beloved Peak District and he took up a GP partnership in Darley Dale. He soon started working on his MD thesis on adverse drug reactions in general practice, which he was awarded in 1979 from the University of Sheffield.At a time when research in general practice was sparse and there was little in the way of computerised records, Cedrick published papers in The BMJ, the British Journal of General Practice, and the Journal of Epidemiology of Community Health on adverse drug reactions, drug treatments in elderly patients, and the effects of drugs on the heart, as well as articles promoting research and…
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