Zeitlin M. D., Gerald

Dr. Zeitlin is a graduate of the University of Cambridge in England. After qualification as a physician in 1958 he became intrigued by the power of anesthesiologists in saving the lives of young patients dying of poliomyelitis. It struck him that although anesthesia was still a primitive mostly empirical medical non-science, that the potential for improvement was great. He began by doing 'locum tenens' jobs in peripheral hospitals. Shortly after this he obtained the postgraduate diploma of Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. The ladder to a 'top job' (a Consultancy) was very steep in...