Dr Philip Glazer
Personal Details
Dr Philip Glazer MRCS LRCP MB BS FFARCS DA
19/04/1913 to 08/11/2003
Place of birth: London, England
Nationality: British
CRN: 541554
Education and qualifications
| General education | Whitgift School, Croyden (having won a scholarship). Medical School, King’s College London 1929-36. |
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| Primary medical qualification(s) | MRCS Eng., LRCP Lond., 1935 MB BS, University of London,1936 |
| Initial Fellowship and type | FFARCS by Election |
| Year of Fellowship | 1953 |
| Other qualification(s) | DA (RCP&S), 1939 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
After graduation Glazer was a surgical house officer at St Alfege’s Hospital, Greenwich and Casualty Officer at King’s College Hospital, London. He worked as an assistant in a singlehanded general practice in Chiswick, briefly taking it over. In 1938 he was appointed as a medical officer at St Andrew’s Hospital, Bromley-by-Bow, London; the following year he undertook a Clinical Assistant post at St Charles Hospital, London. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in Iraq, Egypt and India as an anaesthetist, achieving the rank of Major. After demobilisation in 1945 he was appointed as visiting anaesthetist to Horton General Hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire, where he was promoted to Consultant in 1948. About 1950 he was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He remained in the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics in Oxford until his retirement in about 1978.
Professional interests and activities
In the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics he worked closely with Professor Robert Macintosh. On retirement he worked for several years in the Oxford Blood Transfusion Service in Bladon.
Other biographical information
Philip was one of five children of Polish immigrants living at Bethnal Green in the east end of London. He met Elizabeth, a nursing sister in Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps while serving in India, and they married in 1948. A proficient carpenter, he made furniture for his home and his offspring. He was an Oxford city counsellor and served on the Board of Governors of local schools and of Oxford Technical College. In retirement he lived in the village of Bladon, Oxfordshire. Predeceased by his wife by six months, he died at the age of 90, survived by his two daughters and five grandchildren.
Author and sources
Author:
Dr Alistair McKenzie
Sources and comments:
[1] Glazer A, Glazer S, Henville J. Obituary Philip Glazer. BMJ 2004; 329: 1291. [2] Medical Registers and Directories. [3] ancestry.co.uk