Samuel Laird Galbraith - Consultant neurosurgeon, Labour MR and world's longest surviving lung transplant patient

摘要

Few doctors, however distinguished, become legends as patients. But Sam Galbraith, renowned neurologist turned government minister, came to be the world's longest surviving lung transplant patient after a lifesaving operation in his 40s. "It's not a title I like—there's only one way to go after that," he once told a friend. An outstanding anatomy student, Galbraith was Glasgow University's top medicine and surgery graduate in 1971, and became house surgeon to Andrew Watt Kay at the city's Western Infirmary. He came to neurosurgery in 1972, having had his interest stimulated by experiences at Glasgow and on an international exchange in Chicago.