| Description | Transcript of an interview conducted by Ida Milne with Dr Max Graham, a retired ophthalmologist.
In the interview Dr Graham talked about a wide range of topics, including:
- his early family life and education;
- medical education and student work experience at Trinity College Dublin and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Dublin;
- time spent working in numerous hospitals in Ireland and the UK. These included the Royal West Sussex Hospital, Chichester, England; the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin; the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, England; the Royal Eye Hospital, London, England; the New End Hospital, Hampstead, London, England; and Cardiff Royal Infirmary, Wales;
- the introduction of antibiotics;
- the treatment of Irish medics in Britain;
- social life, travels, and return to Dublin;
- medico-legal work in Ireland;
- the changes brought about by cataract surgery, phacoemulsification, and lens implantation;
- his recollections of Dr Noel Browne, Minister for Health, 1948-1951;
- religion and the Dublin hospitals.
This transcript is closed to researchers until after the death of the interviewee. |