Dr Doreen Davies

Personal Details

Dr Doreen Davies MB ChB FFARCS DA 

08/03/1916 - 03/2007

Place of birth: Llandrindod Wells, Wales

Nationality: British

Post nominals: MB ChB FFARCS DA 

CRN: 527312

 

General education	Medical School at the University of Birmingham
Primary medical qualification(s)	MB ChB, University of Birmingham 1939
Initial Fellowship and type	FFARCS by Election
Year of Fellowship	1953
Other qualification(s)	DA (RCP&S), 1947

 

Professional life and career

Postgraduate career

After graduation Doreen Davies undertook house jobs and was resident anaesthetist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. From September 1942 she was inducted into H.M. Women’s Forces and served in the Royal Air Force as a Medical Officer (Emergency) with the relative rank of Flying Officer. In 1947 she returned to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, becoming a registrar in anaesthetics. In 1950 she was appointed Anaesthetist to the Royal Salopian Infirmary in Shrewsbury and the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry (renamed the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital). After the Royal Salopian Infirmary closed in 1977, she transferred to the new Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. She retired in 1984. 

Professional interests and activities

She was clinically efficient with skills in anaesthesia for ear, nose and throat surgery, eye surgery and orthopaedic surgery.

Other biographical information

There is no record of her getting married. On retirement she moved to Llandrindod Wells where she died over twenty years later at the age of 91.

Author and Sources

Author

Alistair McKenzie

 

Sources and Comments For material which does not fit other categories

[1] Medical Registers and Directories. 

[2] H.M. Forces Appointments. BMJ (Suppl.) 12 September 1942. 

[3] Information on professional activities from Dr Adrian Kuipers. 

[4] ancestry.co.uk