John Mark Reid

Former consultant anaesthetist Glasgow Royal Infirmary (b Ayrshire 1931; q Glasgow University 1955; DA, FFARCS), d 27 February 2003.

John M Reid was an innovator in many specialties associated with anaesthesia. After qualifying (he and his twin brother both graduated in medicine at Glasgow University in 1955), he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to military intelligence. He was appointed consultant anaesthetist at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1966, where he helped set up one of the earliest intensive care units in the United Kingdom. When it became policy in the early 1990s to have all dental procedures under anaesthesia carried out in hospital conditions, John supervised the setting up of such a clinic within the infirmary. In the latter part of his career he set up the infirmary's pain relief clinic. He leaves a wife, Anne, and four sons.