Dr Margot Wilhelmine Goldsmith
Personal Details
Dr Margot Wilhelmine Goldsmith MD LRCP LRCS LRCP&S FFARCS DA
(formerly known as Margot Wilhelmine Goldschmidt)
03/10/1898 to 1988
Place of birth: Berlin, Germany
Nationality: British
CRN: 715784
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Private tuition aged 12 to 17 years, followed by 4 years of war service in the Red Cross, where she was an anaesthetic nurse. She then had a further year of private tuition to matriculate. In 1920 she entered the University of Jena for a year’s study of of law and history, and then spent 4.5 years studying medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, Freiburg and Bern. |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MD Freiburg, 1927. LRCP (Edin) LRCS (Edin) LRCP&S (Glasg) 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
1926-28: University Hospital, Halle.
1928-30: Western Hospital, Berlin.
1931-35: General Practitioner, Berlin.
1936-38: Studies and examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
From 1939 to 1947 she worked as a General Practitioner in the Edinburgh area. Concurrently, from 1940 she was employed as an anaesthetist at the following hospitals in Edinburgh: Royal Infirmary, Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Bruntsfield Women’s Hospital and Roodlands Hospital. In 1947 she was appointed a NHS Consultant Anaesthetist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and she remained in service there until her retirement in 1959. According to The Medical Registers, her name was changed from Goldschmidt to Goldsmith by the 1948 entry.
Professional interests and activities
Margot Goldsmith was interested in endocrinology and metabolism. She published several papers on the metabolic effects and metabolism of thiopentone and trichlorethylene.
Other biographical information
She married a banker in 1929 and they had one son, who became a computer specialist. She enjoyed walking, swimming, skiing and dance, and remained physically active until her last years.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Alistair McKenzie
Sources and comments:
Dr Goldsmith’s self submitted biographical college “Boulton form” dated 1988.
Qualifications confirmed in The Medical Register.
Publications confirmed in the journals.