Dr Geoffrey Leslie Way
Personal Details
Dr Geoffrey Leslie Way MRCS FFARCS DA
06/03/1914 to 20/08/2007
Place of birth: Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality: British
CRN: 521550
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Imperial Service College 1928-32 |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS Eng., LRCP Lond., 1938 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1953 |
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Other qualification(s) |
DA (RCP&S), 1946 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
On qualifying, Way was Casualty Officer at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital 1938-39 and then Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital in Aylsbury. On the outbreak of the Second World War he entered military service in the RAMC, commissioned as a Lieut. in 154 Field Ambulance. Next he was Capt. in 176 Field Ambulance and then Major in four different postings, becoming Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services. By 1945 he was Lt.Col. and Senior Medical Officer of 21 Army Group Troops. On demobilisation, he undertook in 1946 the post of anaesthetic registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, London followed by anaesthetist at Warwick Hospital and South Warwickshire Thoracic Unit for 1947-49. From 1949 to 1950 he was Chief Anaesthetist in the Surgical Department at the University of Geneva. Returning to England, he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at the Seamen’s Group Dreadnought Hospital, and the SW Metropolitan Thoracic Unit, Milford Chest Hospital, Surrey where he worked until 1974, with duties (until 1963/64) also at SE Metropolitan Thoracic Unit and Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. Other consultant anaesthetist posts he held were at: Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford 1971-74 and King Edward VII Hospital Midhurst, Sussex 1971-83.
Professional interests and activities
Way contributed to some 17 articles on anaesthetic practice in peer reviewed journals, mainly on thoracics. He served on several medical committees.
Other biographical information
The son of a GP anaesthetist, he married Edith Corson in 1941 and they had one son. He was County Director of St John Ambulance Brigade for 1973-74. On retiring from his consultant post in Surrey in 1974, he resided for six years on the Isle of Wight. In 1978 he was honoured by appointment as Officer of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem. He returned to the mainland in 1980, initially to West Sussex where he was Divisional Surgeon, St John Ambulance in Pulborough for 1982-84. Finally he moved to Lymington, Hampshire – enjoying playing golf in retirement.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Alistair McKenzie
Sources and comments:
[1] Dr Way’s self submitted biographical college “Boulton Form” dated 1989.
[2] Medical Register 1939 and Medical Directories.
[3] www.ancestry.co.uk for marriage and death information.