In The Name Of Allah

The Most Powerful And Merciful

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

(Margaret Mead)

Hamilton Bailey

A famous Author, Surgeon and a Teacher of Surgery

Antecedents

• Father’s name was Dr. James Bailey who was born at Forfar, Scotland in 1864, the son of a mining engineer. He gained entrance to the Medical School of The University of Edinburgh and qualified as a doctor (MB CHB) in 1887.

• Married Margaret Bailey and joined the mission field.

Antecedants (Cont’d)

• In 1890, James was appointed as the Medical Superintendant of Church Missionary Society Hospital in Nablus in Palestine.

• Returned To Scotland in the autumn of 1891.

• Worked in Brighton and Portsmouth, but then found a vacant practice in the village of Bishopstoke in hampshire

The Young Surgeon

• After his FRCS, Hamilton Bailey was appointed to the post of Resident Surgical Officer to Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire General Hospital.

Publications

• Physical Signs (revised 12th edition)

• Pye’s Surgical Handicraft

• Short Practice of Surgery

Hamilton Bailey sounded out his books on the brighter students before publication.

Marriage

• Hamilton Married his secretary Veta.

• They had a son that died in the Second World War.

• The untimely death of his son caused psychological collapse of his parents especially Hamilton.

To Spain…• At Hawkinge, the

Osbornes convinced Baileys to visit them in Southern Spain.

• In early 1960s, they arrived in Spain, and decide to live there.

• Bailey’s first house in Spain, Las Golondrinas, was on the northern edge of Fuengirola.

The Last Days Of Life• In 1961, Hamilton Bailey

complained of constipation and abdominal distension.

• Dr. Verdugo diagnosed Large Bowel obstruction and called in Dr. Lopez.

• Bailey refused to have any sort of colostomy

• Bailey’s refusal was in contradiction with his firm belief in “staged” approaches to surgery.

The Last Days Of Life (cont’d)

• Barium meal suggested a tumor in the rectosigmoid.

• Dr. Lopez resected the tumor, joined up the colon and closed the abdomen.

• Fatally severe complications followed.

• Dr. Hamilton Bailey died in Malaga on 26 March, 1961.

Doubts regarding the Dx and Tx• Bailey had been told that he

had a volvulus of the colon.

• “we do not give blood in spain” Bailey’s surgeon

• Electrolyte balance was being maintained with the help of Coca Cola (Orally 23 bottles per day).

• Toomey’s final comment was that a proximal transverse colostomy would have saved Hamilton Bailey’s life.

The resting place

• The british cemetery in Malaga.

• “I can well understand how a splenetic English-man might take his own life in order to be buried in this place.” Hans Christian Andersen.

And He Lives on..

• A Memorial Plaque to Bailey was put up in the Parque San Antonio Hospital in Malaga

• His photograph hangs in the International College of Surgeons in Chicago.

• Obituaries appeared in The Lancet, British Medical Journal and British Journal of Surgery.

• A book case of memorabilia was set up at the Royal Northern Hospital and when the new Operation Theatres were opened there in 1970, they were named after Bailey together with McNeil Love.

The Trust

• Hamilton Bailey Medical Libraries

• Some 200 medical schools around the world were identified and approached.

• Those that responded favorably and have benefited from the trust include Mona University at Kingston, Jamaica, The Christian Medical College of South India at vellor, Seth College in Bombay, Khyber Medical College at Peshawar, and the Medical School of Papua New Guinea.

Conclusion

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

(Elbart Hubbard)