Tribute
Dearden In a tribute to the late Edith
Margaret Dearden (PJ, 20 September,
p389), SUSAN STONE (née Bateman) writes:
I was a student at Brighton
School of Pharmacy with Margaret Dearden from 1962 to 1965. Everyone
from those times will remember Margaret as a most industrious student,
always ready with a friendly joke. Coming from South Africa, she spent
many vacations with me and became one of our family.
After gaining her PhD and qualifying she returned to South Africa with
her husband Tony and was appointed as a lecturer in pharmacy at the Technikon
Witwatersrand. More recently she had a successful nutripharmaceuticals
business, which she started with her sister.
With Margaret’s untimely death, pharmacy and medicine have lost
a meticulous research pharmacist who will be irreplaceable. Her many
friends in Britain and South Africa will be deeply saddened and will
be thinking of Tony and sons Timothy and Nicholas.
Shepherd In a tribute
to the late Bridget Mary
Shepherd (PJ, 20 September, p389), ALAN HILL
(director of pharmaceutical services, South Tees Hospitals
NHS Trust) writes:
Bridget Shepherd died unexpectedly in August. For
the last 30 years she had worked in the hospitals of Middlesbrough,
primarily Middlesbrough General Hospital as principal pharmacist. Before
moving
to Teesside she had worked at Whittington Hospital and Charing Cross
Hospital, both in London.
I had the privilege of working with Bridget over the past 20 years.
Throughout that time she conscientiously devoted herself to developing
and providing
a high quality pharmaceutical service to the patients of Middlesbrough
General Hospital. She was a larger-than-life character who cared
for patients and the staff she worked with. Bridget will always come
to
mind whenever and wherever the pharmacy department at Middlesbrough
General
is mentioned.
The pace of her illness in her last days was hard to comprehend,
but as always her practical and positive attitude was much in evidence.
Her extensive local and pharmaceutical knowledge, strong leadership
and friendship
has been a support to many of her colleagues across the Teesside
area.
Bridget had presence and authority in all she did, tempered with
a genuine interest in and concern for people.
Bridget contributed so much to so many during her life. It was strangely
ironic that she died at the time services were being transferred
from Middlesbrough General and its final closure. She had spent most
of
her working life associated with that hospital, and would have worked
at
the James Cook University Hospital for a few months before her planned
retirement next year.
Bridget will be greatly missed by her friends and colleagues on Teesside.
The pharmacy staff of South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust and retired
colleagues join me in expressing our sympathy to her husband Michael
and children
Deborah and Jon.
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