John William Turner

bmj;383/oct03_8/p2277/FAF1faJohn William Turner was born in Acton, west London, to Molly and Cyril Turner. His schooling at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hampstead School was interrupted three times with periods of evacuation because of the bombing of London in the second world war. He qualified from King’s College Hospital Medical School in 1956 and did house jobs at Dulwich General Hospital and Belgrave Hospital for Children. He then did military service in Germany. During that time he was able to spend useful periods at the Universitätskrankenhaus [university hospital] in Göttingen so that at the end of military service he took up the post of full time assistant surgeon at the hospital. By a most happy “life changing” circumstance, Francis John Gillingham visited Göttingen and lectured on stereotactic treatment of parkinsonism. John translated the lecture into German. He was captivated by the technique, and it went on to form a large part of his…
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