Keith Alexander Sands

bmj;386/jul09_3/q1476/FAF1faBorn in London 1948, the same year the NHS was founded, Keith Alexander Sands was an exceptional physician, teacher, and medical leader who devoted his life to a career he loved. Despite his passion for practising medicine he still found time for family, friends, and an extensive array of interests and hobbies.After spending his early childhood in East Africa, he returned to England to complete his education before moving to Manchester University, to read medicine and to allow him to follow his beloved football team, Manchester United. Graduating in 1971 he worked in Manchester, Derby, and Sheffield before achieving Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 1976 and taking up a post as consultant endocrinologist and general physician at the then Mansfield General and King’s Mill hospitals in 1980, at the age of 32. The unique local diabetes service included inpatient care at Langwith Lodge…
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