Bill Coode

bmj;384/mar19_2/q644/FAF1faBill Coode died in service. He died looking after the patients he cared for, working for a department he loved. On Halloween, with trick or treaters roaming the streets, he failed to turn up for work. He was uncontactable, we thought because his phone was broken after a bike incident the week before, but it wasn’t that. We wondered if he was ill, an infected wound from a patient’s bite, but it wasn’t that. The coroner stated heart failure, but it wasn’t that—not really. A good friend asked if working in emergency medicine had killed him, even though that didn’t get a mention in the post mortem. At Bill’s funeral his father asked that we learn from what happened to Bill, and perhaps in doing so we will live longer, better lives.Bill studied medicine at University College London, qualifying with his future wife, Sue Rowe, in 1993. Like many of…
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