Former consultant surgeon St George's Hospital, London (b London 1914, the only son of a general practitioner and coroner in south London; q St Thomas's 1937; MS, FRCS; KBE), d 1 July 1998. Rodney Smith had a remarkable career as a surgeon, teacher, and administrator. After a distinguished time as a student at St Thomas's, where he also excelled at cricket (playing for the Surrey County 2nd XI), he embarked on a surgical career, training partly under the formidable and eccentric Philip Mitchener. Appointed surgical registrar at the Middlesex Hospital he was greatly influenced by (Lord) Webb-Johnson and (Sir Gordon) Gordon-Taylor. From 1941 to 1945 he served as a surgical specialist in the Royal Army Medical Corps, working in field units in Palestine, Egypt, and north Africa and being wounded at Anzio. In 1946 he was appointed to the staff at St George's, at a time when, like several other London teaching hospitals, that hospital did not usually fill its posts with outsiders.
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