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Obituary

David Francis Cort, AHA 19354988

MA, MB, BChir, FRCS,

Frank Cort died suddenly on 14th December 1988. He was educated at Denstone College, and then

Gonville and Cams College, Cambridge. His medical education was at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, where he graduated MB, BChir. in 1959. Early exposure to plastic surgery as a houseman to Henry Elliot Blake at St George’s influenced his choice of surgical specialty, and after completing various junior surgical posts in the South East of England and Cardiff and having obtained the FRCS in 1964, he started his formal plastic surgery training at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, in 1968.

In 1970 he came as senior registrar to the West Midlands Regional Plastic and Jaw Surgery Unit at Wordsley Hospital, where his enthusiasm and skill was recognised in 1974 when he succeeded Mr 0. T. Mansfield as Plastic Surgeon to the Regional Unit and to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bir- mingham.

In the following years he pioneered major ablative and reconstructive surgery of the head and neck and skin tumours in Birmingham and the West Midlands and established a reputation as a bold, sympathetic, energetic plastic surgeon whose patients did well, reflecting the tremendous care which he gave to them.

He was an exciting man to be with. His enthusiasm and ideas stimulated many of his colleagues and his clinical teaching was superb. There are many plastic surgeons in Britain, India and the Middle East who owe much of their plastic surgery training and their enthusiasm and high ideals for our specialty to him.

“Uncle Frank” was well-known and respected

throughout the West Midlands. He inspired confi- dence and upheld all that was best in British plastic surgery. He will be sorely missed not only in the West Midlands but throughout the United King- dom.

He is survived by his wife, Enid, and his two sons, one studying medicine at Sheffield and the other about to study law at Oxford.

D. S. MURRAY

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