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Article: OBITUARY: Professor Charles Fletcher
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 23, 1995
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The son of Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, the first Secretary of
the Medical Research Council; educated at Eton and Trinity College,
Cambridge; an oar in the victorious Cambridge boat of 1933: with
his background, Charles Fletcher could have been assumed to be a
pillar of the establishment. Far from it - Fletcher was a radical
free-thinker, who made major contributions to the medicine of his
day. He will be remembered particularly for his pioneering of
medicine on television, his work on the dust diseases of
coalminers, his campaigning on the hazards of cigar- ette smoking
and for emphasising the importance of communication in medicine.
He was born in 1911. After Eton and Cambridge, he ...
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