Professor Dame Averil Mansfield emphasizes responsibility and competence in leadership rather than performance. She advocates for generalism in medicine, reflecting on her experiences and concerns about fragmented patient care today.
Cardio-biliary reflex (“Cope sign”): gallbladder disease causing vagal bradycardia or AV block that mimics cardiac events, often with normal troponin.
Sir Vincent Zachary Cope (1881 – 1974) was a British physician and surgeon. Eponymously linked with Cope Psoas test and obturator test.
Augustus Desiré Waller (1856–1922) was a British physiologist who recorded the first human electrocardiogram (ECG) in 1887. His work laid the foundation for modern electrocardiography and inspired Willem Einthoven’s innovations.
Sir William Broadbent (1835–1907), British physician-neurologist; pioneer in hemiplegia theory, neurosyphilis and the pericardial Broadbent sign.
Greta Beighton (1939–2017), English nurse and genetic researcher who co-developed the Beighton Score for joint hypermobility and contributed to clinical genetics in South Africa.
The Beighton Score is a simple, numerical index which is used to express the range and severity of joint movements in normal and affected persons.
Peter Beighton (1934–2023) was a clinical geneticist known for research on inherited skeletal disorders and co-developing the Beighton Score for joint hypermobility.
Mary Clayton Holt (1924-1993), English cardiologist. Holt-Oram syndrome (1960); pioneer in cardiac rehab and advocate for women in medicine.
