"Medicine necessarily begins in clinics, since they determine and define the medical problem. But while they are the physician's first study, clinics are not the foundation of medicine. Physiology is the foundation of scientific medicine because it must yield the explanation of morbid phenomena by showing their relations to the normal state" Claude Bernard |
A Short Medical CV Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was Smyth Exhibitioner, and at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London. He trained as a GP and then paediatrician in Newcastle upon Tyne, and his career took him back to Cambridge, where he was awarded the Lionel Whitby Medal for his MD. As an MRC Training Fellow his career next took him to Harvard Medical School and the Boston Children's Hospital, as a Fulbright Travel Scholar, and on his return to the Scientific Staff of the Medical Research Council's Dunn Nutrition Unit, thence to the University of Glasgow, as Reader in Human Nutrition and then Samson Gemmell Professor of Child Health and Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill. He was awarded a DSc for his research in paediatrics and infant nutrition and the Sydenham Medal by the Society of Apothecaries for his contributions to the history of medicine.
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