Article: OBITUARY: Professor Charles Fletcher

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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