| Reference Number | LMH/9 |
| Title | Interview with Dermot O'Flynn |
| Date | 28 December 2012 |
| Creator Name | O'Flynn, Dermot, 1920-2014 |
| Susan Mullaney, Honorary Secretary of the History of Medicine Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland |
| Description | Transcript of an interview conducted by Dr Susan Mullaney with Mr Dermot O'Flynn, a retired urological surgeon.
In the interview Mr O'Flynn talked about a number of topics, including:
- early life and family;
- medical education at University College Cork;
- time spent working as a house surgeon in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, and in Lincoln County Hospital, England, where he began to specialise in urology;
- Second World War service in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Ghana and Nigeria;
- period spent studying for the Edinburgh Fellowship examinations;
- time spent working in London and Edinburgh;
- return to Ireland to become Consultant in Urology at the Meath Hospital;
- establishment of a private practice with Victor Lane;
- the beginnings of specialisation in medicine;
- tuberculosis and the introduction of antibiotics;
- religion and the medical profession in Ireland;
- period as President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland;
- his children, personal life and interest in sailing.
File also includes an obituary for Mr O'Flynn, taken from the May 2014 edition of the 'Surgical Scope' magazine of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. |
| Extent | 24 pages |
| Digital Collections | View online in our digital collections |
| Copyright | Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Term | Education, Medical |
| Urology |
| Surgery |
| Tuberculosis |
| Antibiotics |