Former Medical Research Council research fellow Churchill Hospital, Oxford (b 1924; q Cambridge/London 1949; MD, FRCS), d 2 November 2005.
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David rowed for Cambridge in the 1946 university boat race. After a house job at St Thomas' and national service he trained in plastic surgery, gaining experience in the use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment. His seminal publications on the use of this in a variety of conditions are still widely quoted. David completed his MD thesis on hyperbaric oxygen and wound healing and spent 10 years at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford studying the use of oxygen as a radiosensitiser. He moved to Stockholm, studying the use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment to avoid amputation in patients with diabetic peripheral vascular disease. On returning to the United Kingdom, he studied the benefit of hyperbaric oxygen treatment in slowing the progression of multiple sclerosis.
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