Paul Anthony Edmund Hurst

bmj;384/feb23_4/q460/FAF1faA memorial service was held at All Saints’, Laughton, on 7 October 2023 for Paul Hurst, previously consultant surgeon to the Royal Sussex County Hospital. The admiration and respect for this polymath, vascular surgeon, teacher, artist, musician, motoring enthusiast, fisherman, ornithologist, raconteur, wit, and—above all—family man was enthusiastically celebrated. A picture was painted of a busy man, recounting amusing stories, sculpting a bust, creating an artwork, extravagantly illustrating a set of surgical operation records, or doodling a candid cartoon of one of his friends. Infamously, he would then later produce the drawing with an embarrassing flourish at meetings.Paul was brought up in Essex and had high academic ability and musical talents, gaining entry to St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. He was awarded a physiology bachelors degree, qualified in 1970, and received the distinguished Hepburn memorial prize in surgery. After house jobs he trained at Basildon hospital and then St Thomas’…
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