First woman to be president of the Royal College of Physicians Artist: David Poole, completed in 1992. Copyright: Royal College of Physicians. When Margaret Turner-Warwick was a young doctor in the 1950s, two centres of gravity were competing for her time and attention. One centre was, of course, medicine. The other was her family, which included her two young daughters. She was devoted and fully committed to both, striving to balance “the needs of the family” with “responsibilities for patients.” But nearly half a century later, she conceded that patients often had to come first. “The greatest compromise in my life,” she wrote in her 2005 autobiography, Living Medicine: Recollections and Reflections , “has been coming to terms with continuing guilt: while I was caring for patients I felt I should have been at home and vice versa.”1 Turner-Warwick says, however, that she received “immense support” from her daughters, Gillian and Lynne, who “were able to accept from a very young age” the demands of medicine. A good example, she says, occurred one evening in the 1950s. Turner-Warwick, at the time a specialist in respiratory medicine at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in London, came home after a shift and found a letter written earlier in the day by 4 year old Lynne. “Dear mummy, I hoape you don’t git to tired at hospidol looking at the pashnts—If you do in the midol of a pashnt finish the pashnt then come home. Love from Lynne.” “With amazing maturity,” Turner-Warwick says, “she had understood the priorities.” Turner-Warwick would move on from those guilt ridden early days to become a leading thoracic physician based at Royal Brompton Hospital in London and a world class clinical researcher and author of more than 200 papers. In 1972 she succeeded John Guyett Scadding as professor of thoracic medicine at the University of London’s Cardiothoracic Institute, later …

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玛格丽特·特纳·沃威克

首位担任皇家内科学院院长的女性艺术家：大卫·普尔（David Poole），于1992年完成。版权所有：皇家内科学院。1950年代，玛格丽特·特纳·沃威克（Margaret Turner-Warwick）还是一名年轻医生时，两个重心在争夺她的时间和注意力。当然，其中一个中心是医学。另一个是她的家人，其中包括她的两个小女儿。她致力于并全力以赴，力求在“家庭需求”与“患者责任”之间取得平衡。但是将近半个世纪后，她承认患者通常必须首先来。她在2005年的自传《活着的医学：回忆与思考》中写道：“我一生中最大的妥协，一直使我感到内continuing：当我照顾病人时，我觉得我应该在家，反之亦然。“ 1 Turner-Warwick说，她从女儿吉莉安和琳恩那里获得了“巨大的支持”，她们的女儿“很年轻就可以接受”药物的需求。她说，一个很好的例子发生在1950年代的一个晚上。特纳·沃威克（Turner-Warwick）当时是伦敦伊丽莎白·加勒特·安德森医院（Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital）的呼吸内科专家，他轮班回家后发现当天4岁的琳恩（Lynne）当天写的一封信。“亲爱的木乃伊，我希望您不要因为hospidol看着果仁糖而感到疲倦，如果您在果仁糖的果仁糖浆中腌制了果仁糖，那就回家吧。来自Lynne的爱。” 透纳·沃威克说：“成熟度惊人，她已经了解了优先事项。特纳·沃威克（Turner-Warwick）将从早期的内感转移到成为伦敦皇家布朗普顿医院的首席胸腔内科医师，并成为世界一流的临床研究人员，并撰写200多篇论文。1972年，她接替约翰·盖伊特·斯卡丁（John Guyett Scadding）担任伦敦大学心胸学院胸腔内科学教授，后来…