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I think my earliest doctor was Dr Moreland. I vaguely remember the surgery being somewhere at the end of Digbeth High Street, where it turned under the bridge and on uphill towards the Kingston cinema and the Coventry Road I think a flyover was built there.
Up to date: I have just had an appointment with an advanced nurse. Like a nurse, but with 2 years extra university training. She is allowed to do some doctor things, such as prescriptions. For us regulars it is Doctor - Nurse - Doctor etc at 3 month intervals. One and a half hours going through my medications, and any problems. That is good value from the health system here. She speaks French, and .... French. I am exhausted now. Back home to practice my English with Julie.
Andrew.
 
mikejee said:
But unfortunately many today go to their doctors and to the A & E with fairly mild symptoms, which they would not have considered worth a visit then.
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All calls to our local surgery are triaged. I f the problem is not deemed urgent then you may possibly get a phone session with a doctor or more likely a nurse. When i recently come out of hospital i phoned my surgery to say i was still in pain & needed some more pain medication. I received a phone call from a nurse to say a prescription had been sent to the pharmacy for me, 224 codeine tablets which was a bit overkill !
 
Smudger said:
All calls to our local surgery are triaged. I f the problem is not deemed urgent then you may possibly get a phone session with a doctor or more likely a nurse. When i recently come out of hospital i phoned my surgery to say i was still in pain & needed some more pain medication. I received a phone call from a nurse to say a prescription had been sent to the pharmacy for me, 224 codeine tablets which was a bit overkill !
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OMG I would say so! I had back surgery last week, very sore but used an over the counter pain killer. If you need it you need it but 224. You would be lucky to get 10 without seeing the Dr. Hope you are feeling better!
 
I only discovered this thread recently but looking back I saw mention of a Dr. Gourevitch. He was my Grandmother's GP in Aston. I recall that she admired him greatly, to the point that she kept this newspaper cutting concerning one of his sons. Sadly the date of publication is unknown.
 

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I only discovered this thread recently but looking back I saw mention of a Dr. Gourevitch. He was my Grandmother's GP in Aston. I recall that she admired him greatly, to the point that she kept this newspaper cutting concerning one of his sons. Sadly the date of publication is unknown.
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Arnold Gourevitch​

Former consultant surgeon Birmingham (b Paris 1914; q London 1936; FRCS), died from pneumonia on 5 February 2004.

During the second world war Arnold helped establish a hospital west of Canea, Crete. After being captured by the Germans, he and another doctor climbed the wire and escaped. He was awarded the Military Cross, ending the war at Trieste, Italy, and being demobilised in 1946. He was appointed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and Dudley Guest Hospital, and later to the Birmingham Children's Hospital. In the early 1960s he spent time in Ethiopia, teaching and operating and helping to develop a new medical school. In 1973 he took time off to help Israeli surgeons in the Yom Kippur war. He leaves a wife, Corinne; five children; and nine grandchildren.

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Arnold Gourevitch​

Former consultant surgeon Birmingham (b Paris 1914; q London 1936; FRCS), died from pneumonia on 5 February 2004.

During the second world war Arnold helped establish a hospital west of Canea, Crete. After being captured by the Germans, he and another doctor climbed the wire and escaped. He was awarded the Military Cross, ending the war at Trieste, Italy, and being demobilised in 1946. He was appointed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and Dudley Guest Hospital, and later to the Birmingham Children's Hospital. In the early 1960s he spent time in Ethiopia, teaching and operating and helping to develop a new medical school. In 1973 he took time off to help Israeli surgeons in the Yom Kippur war. He leaves a wife, Corinne; five children; and nine grandchildren.

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A wonderful human being!
 
philbee5 said:
Does anyone remember a Dr Sangster (H J Sangster I think). His surgery was on Gravelly Hill Erdington 1950's / 60's?
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I do, he was our family doctor for years when I was a child. He was Scottish ? We lived on Kingsbury Rd. I remember him as a kind man, v helpful to my widowed mother
 
Ada said:
I do, he was our family doctor for years when I was a child. He was Scottish ? We lived on Kingsbury Rd. I remember him as a kind man, v helpful to my widowed mother
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hi ada...that was in the day when the family doctor almost became family...sadly these days we dont always get to see the same doctor..my dad used to drink with our family doctor :) and when he retired dad took a good bottle of whiskey down to the surgery

lyn
 
I have mentioned our doctor on here before the wonderful Richard Pomeroy R.I P.

He delivered my son 50 years ago and delivered most of the babies in Chelmsley around then.
The old surgery was demolished a few years ago and a new Medical centre was built in the road now named Pomeroy Way, a lovely tribute to a lovely man.
 
On off topic but it seems that Birminghams planning horizon is 50 or 60 years then they tear everything down, re Albertas statement above, the Bull Ring, Perry Barr? That is a vey low and expensive horizon. One could have some pretty draconian thoughts about the planners there! It’s not about criticism it’s about careing.
 
Are there any past Harborne-ites reading? Maybe you went to Dr. McCook?

In the '50s when I was just single-figures old our Dr. was the very pleasant Dora K. McCook with a soft Scottish burr in her voice.

Her surgery was on High Street around a dozen properties down from the Post Office, in the photo possibly the further of the redbrick houses just down from Paynes though I am more drawn to the lower-roofed houses next to those - that the lady on her bike will be passing in just a second or two ... now!

There was a low garden gate that opened inward with a thumb-lever, and a path to the door past a small front garden and I can still clearly see - and smell, but not in a bad way - her waiting room that was the hallway inside with 4/5 barley-twist legged wooden dining chairs facing each other on the two sides: the door in the far-left was her office, which was the front room alongside in what I assume was her house.

Nothing but nice memories of someone I was always perfectly happy to be visiting if a need arose.
 

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Just thought I would leave this here. Over here we have a gov sponsored health website, for doctors to leave prescriptions, and for specialists to leave reports for docs etc. There is a section to update your own details, so I thought I would update my current weight as it has gone down lately (hurrah). The page comes up "Enter your weight, value must be between 1 and 600 KG". (I was so tempted, just to see if anyone noticed. But I resisted).
Andrew.
 
Isobel said:
Hi Amanda

Yes I remember Dr Gubbins . Was there another Dr , I seem to recall the name of Dr Tighe or something like that ? I vaguely remember Mum having a card that she used to pay money on . It all seems a million years away , but reading the memories of everyone else on this brilliant site does help to jog the old memory.

Isobel
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I think this would have been too long ago for anyone to remember but my mum said my 2x grt grandmother used to get a few pence from the doctor to go in and help with births and pop in to look after the Mothers for a couple of weeks afterwards. Her name was Susan English and when she remarried Susan Hudson. She lived at 81 Henry Street. She died in the late 1940s I think.
 
The 1911 census gives Susan English as at 89 Henry St, but she probably moved (not very far)
 
Anyone remember a Doctor who lived/worked out of his house situated on the right hand side of Wood End Road above Rookery Park Erdington in the late 1960's early '70's ? I can't remember his name but I was recommended him and registered with him and the following month he saw me on a home visit when I was laid low with a bad dose of 'flu not long after I moved to Erdington to start my first teaching post in 1969!
Looking google maps was the house/surgery where a nursery now is?
 
mikejee said:
In 1970, James Houston, physician & surgeon, was at 134 Wood End Road, which is where the nursery now is
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Much appreciated. Am in the process of writing about the years I spent working and living in Erdington and Sutton Coldfield so may be posting more questions in the future!
 
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