Dr Henry Quintin Osburne Wheeler
Personal Details
Dr Henry Quintin Osburne Wheeler LRCP LRCS LRFPS FFARCS DA
04/03/1916 to 01/1977
Place of birth: Liverpool, England
Nationality: British
CRN: 723750
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Not known |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
LRCP Edin., LRCS Edin., LRFPS Glasg., 1940 |
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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), 1943 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Soon after graduation Wheeler was appointed resident anaesthetist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. With Morrison and McKinlay he was on of “the three musketeers” in John Gillies’ original Department of Anaesthetics. Next he joined the RAMC in which he became a Specialist Anaesthetist. By the end of 1947 he was appointed as an anaesthetist at the Royal Infirmary in Perth, Scotland. While in this post he was also appointed Lecturer in Clinical Anaesthesia at the University of St Andrews. In 1950 he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at the Hexham Hospitals Group in Northumberland. Nine years later he moved to a Consultant post at the Sunderland Hospitals Group (Tyne and Wear), where he specialised in anaesthesia for neurosurgery. He remained in this post until his retirement about 1976.
Professional interests and activities
Wheeler was a member of the British Medical Association and the Association of Anaesthetists, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1958 he published a case report of a death during anaesthesia associated with adrenal hypofunction. He served on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Anaesthesia from 1950 to 1972.
Other biographical information
In Northumberland he married JeSie Catherine Dingwall in 1950. Sadly he died within a year of retirement in Sunderland aged 60 years.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Alistair McKenzie
Sources and comments:
[1] Medical Registers and Directories. [2] Gillies J. Retrospect. Newsletter, Scottish Society of Anaesthetists 1972; 13: 19-24. [3] ancestry.co.uk