John Spencer Jones

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Guy's Hospital medical students who went to Belsen. Pictured from left to right: D. Davies, D. Strange, J. S. Jones, D. Rahilly, D. Westbury, M. E. Davys, D. S. Hurwood, D. H. Forsdick, J. V. Kilby, J. E Mandel, J. L. Hayward and J. A. Turner.[1]

John Spencer Jones (1924 – 11 March 2007) was a British chest physician. In 1945, while studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. Here, he developed tuberculosis. He later authored a number of articles in medical journals including "Telling the right patient" in the British Medical Journal (1981), where he reported that 50% of people with terminal disease "want to know that this is so".[2][3][4]

Selected publications[edit]

  • "Telling the right patient". British Medical Journal, Vol. 283, No. 6286 (25 July 1981), pp. 291–292. PMID 6788299 doi:10.1136/bmj.283.6286.291

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Relief of Belsen Concentration Camp". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  2. ^ Chris Jones, "Obituaries: John Spencer Jones". British Medical Journal, Vol. 334, Issue 7602, pp. 1063–1063. PMC 1871764 doi:10.1136/bmj.39206.676667.BE ISSN 0959-8138(subscription required)
  3. ^ A. Cartwright, "The role of the general practitioner in helping the elderly widowed". Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Vol. 32, Issue 237 (April 1982), pp. 215–227. PMID 7086755
  4. ^ O'Donnell, Michael, "One Man's Burden". British Medical Journal, Vol. 293, 22 November 1986