Last week I wrote about the first computers at Addenbrooke's Hospital. A few weeks ago I was given a series of publications, 'The History of Anaesthesia Society Proceedings', by a retired Consultant Anaesthetist I was looking through them for links to Addenbrooke's when I came across an article by Dr Yash Pole, ('Evolution of the …
Month: February 2019
Addenbrooke’s first Computer
The story of the Addenbrooke’s Computer Unit starts in the mid 1960’s when the Hospital Board and the University’s Faculty Board of Medicine set up a joint working party to consider the role of computers in the future development of Addenbrooke's. They reported that there was a definite place for computers in the hospital and …
The first surgeons and physicians
When Addenbrooke’s first opened in 1766 it had three physicians and three surgeons. The posts were Honorary and they were elected to the post by the Governors of the Hospital. Surgeons were in general practice at the time as there were not that many surgical procedures available then. The surgeons were Richard Hayles, Allan Hopkins …
