Dr. Noshir Antia, FRCS (Eng.) FACS (Hon.).

摘要

Noshir Hormasji Antia was born into a middle class Parsi family in Mumbai on 8th February 1922. After a happy childhood and schooling in rural Karnataka and Mumbai, Dr. Antia completed his medical studies with merit at the prestigious Grant Medical College in Mumbai in 1945, and the lure of a handsome stipend made him enlist as a doctor in the British Indian Army. In 1947, exultant with a lucky quick discharge from a military career, he sailed to England to qualify in surgery. He worked in over 11 hospitals in the UK over a 9 year stint absorbing the skills under stalwarts like Sir Harold Gillies, the father of modern plastic surgery, and A.B. Wallace, who had pioneered through his inquiring mind radically new treatment for burns. His interest in plastic surgery was kindled by Gillies, an unorthodox surgical genius with an awesome reputation. Young and impressionable, Antia picked up not just the technique but also an attitude of the mind. The years in post-war England and Europe fortified in his mind how much could be achieved with very little money and facilities without compromising on quality.