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About the Book

This is an autobiography detailing my roots and schooling toward university. It covers my struggles in wishing to become a surgeon; very few women did that then. I made medical history in the Edinburgh College of Surgeons and in the General Medical Council. Now retired, I explain how many people helped me along the way.

About the Author

I was born a pre-war baby in Scotland, but by virtue of World War II I was a brought up by my mother in a single-parent family. After St Andrews University, I wished to do surgery—a male dominated career then. I ended up as a paediatric surgeon in Manchester. Unexpectedly, I went into medical politics, making medical history by becoming the first woman to be elected to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, an international body regulating surgeons of all types.