The master's legacy: the fist Paul Wood Lecture

摘要

The 13th of July 1962 was a bright summer's day. Shafts of sunlight lit the dreary side room of Meyerstein ward in the Middlesex Hospital, London. Paul Wood, deceptively frail looking, Was in bed, his china blue eyes looked out form The balding head. The technician, David Gibbons, who took his ECG that morning, told Me on the day of this lecutre that Paul Wood Had looked at his ECG, commented "it's Iireversible" and reflected silently.