Alex Paton
Alex Paton was born in Prayagraj, India on March 2nd, 1924 and is the British Physician And Writer. At the age of 91, Alex Paton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Paton qualified in 1947 and was one of the first intake of doctors into the new NHS. After house officer posts he spent two years’ doing national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Trieste. Following a post in Salisbury in 1950, and another at St Helier Hospital in 1951, he became registrar to Sheila Sherlock, an expert in liver disease, at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, part of the Hammersmith Hospital. At his interview with Sherlock, she asked Paton "are you prepared to push patients in a bed to the laboratory? You are? The job is yours". During this post, he kept a private diary in which he wrote about the research into liver disease, saying... "we and anyone else at Hammersmith use subjects for experiments who will not necessarily benefit by them" and quoted his South African houseman as saying "the beds are nothing more than an annexe to the medical laboratories".
He completed his MD at Yale University on the topic of neurology in diabetes mellitus. In 1959, he was appointed consultant physician to Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, where his main focus was on emergency medicine, internal medicine and the liver. Here he taught postgraduate medical students who were preparing for the MRCP examination, established an endoscopy service and began a 20-year study of the effects of alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
In 1973, he took a one-year sabbatical as a visiting professor of medicine in Baghdad.
In 1981 he returned to London and became postgraduate Dean for North-West London hospitals. He took up consultant positions at the St Ann's Hospital and the Prince of Wales Hospital in North London, and became the first chairman of the medical committee of Alcohol Concern.
In the British Medical Journal's ABC of Alcohol, which he edited, Paton described people's patterns of drinking and its association with genetic, constitutional and environmental factors, and explained why women were more susceptible to the effects of alcohol than men. In addition he highlighted how alcohol misuse was easily missed in the elderly.
On reviewing the book Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich, he was one of the few reviewers supporting Illich, saying that “his argument is closely reasoned, sometimes obscure, often exasperating, but never dull, and fully documented”.
In 1987, he retired and for the next three years worked at the addictions unit at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford.