1 00:00:02,280 --> 00:00:10,260 I mean, Jerry was a wonderful guy. He was fantastic neurologist. 2 00:00:10,260 --> 00:00:19,290 He was a very good teacher. He was able to stand over people and watched and operate, which most people find quite difficult. 3 00:00:19,290 --> 00:00:25,140 And he would come in and just watch someone at any time of day or night. 4 00:00:25,140 --> 00:00:48,390 John was a very bright man, incredible raconteur and. 5 00:00:48,390 --> 00:00:55,650 I remember as an essay when I came down from I worked for Valentine Loeb, 6 00:00:55,650 --> 00:01:06,030 then the first case I clocked on a Sunday was a lady with an acoustic neuroma and the Monday morning board round, 7 00:01:06,030 --> 00:01:15,240 Joe said to John Potter, John, you take this case because Joe didn't like the acoustics and gave more to John Potter. 8 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:22,890 And so I presented this lady and John Potter said to me, well, what would you do? 9 00:01:22,890 --> 00:01:28,490 And I said, well, I'm afraid that's the right thing. And he went for me. 10 00:01:28,490 --> 00:01:32,400 You know, my first walk around in front of everybody was a ground round. 11 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:38,880 And he really went for me and I ordered it. 12 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,920 Anyway, I he said, no, we're not going to operate on. 13 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:48,810 He he always tried to find a way of avoiding operation if he could. 14 00:01:48,810 --> 00:01:59,130 And eventually what he did was to do an capture, capsular removal of this tumour, not taking out the outside palm. 15 00:01:59,130 --> 00:02:03,180 And that meant it would inevitably recur. 16 00:02:03,180 --> 00:02:10,440 And he didn't do that for about six months when the tumour was quite big. 17 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:21,900 And just as amusing anecdote, when I came back as a consultant, I had this lady who I remember well, very nice lady came back and I had to operate. 18 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:26,160 Yes. And the total removal and unfortunately gave her a facial. 19 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:36,750 But we could then hitch the do a facial hyperarousal anastomosis, which gave her an acceptable face. 20 00:02:36,750 --> 00:02:40,770 But yeah, Joe John did not like operating in. 21 00:02:40,770 --> 00:02:47,790 One of his great things was there comes a time in an operation when you have to throw your hat at it. 22 00:02:47,790 --> 00:02:51,690 And my my heart always drops this way. 23 00:02:51,690 --> 00:02:57,300 And I heard these words because I knew that it meant the big sucker went in. 24 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:06,510 I have very damaged patient would come out the other end road and doing aneurisms with John Potter, which was the Friday afternoon business, 25 00:03:06,510 --> 00:03:16,260 was again, he hated the operating on Berstein, which is of course, in those days and is no operating microscope. 26 00:03:16,260 --> 00:03:27,180 But inevitably the aneurysm would rupture, the blood would hit the ceiling, would be screaming and shouting and clips on everywhere. 27 00:03:27,180 --> 00:03:29,730 Oh, just terrible. 28 00:03:29,730 --> 00:03:41,040 But when I was I said, Joe, I got very interested in the operating microscope and I got a brain from the past department and in my spare time, 29 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:49,200 got to borrow the operating microscope, which was hanging around and used to practise because you had to not look at your hands. 30 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:57,060 And if you were looking down binocular binoculars in effect, and your hands were down here, 31 00:03:57,060 --> 00:04:02,690 but you and you had to maintain 3-D and you were looking down a light and it was magnificent. 32 00:04:02,690 --> 00:04:11,730 It was fantastic. Anyway, Joe said to me in the presence of John, uh, what do you think of the operating microscope? 33 00:04:11,730 --> 00:04:21,330 I said, I think it's fantastic. It's the future I have, because he was going to support, again, to Zurich for a course. 34 00:04:21,330 --> 00:04:27,330 And John Potter again. I said, terrible, terrible. 35 00:04:27,330 --> 00:04:31,020 The operating microscope operations will take much longer. 36 00:04:31,020 --> 00:04:36,090 The infection rate will be more. And so I of course, they transform. 37 00:04:36,090 --> 00:04:43,710 Neurosurgery is fantastic and operating on aneurysms. 38 00:04:43,710 --> 00:04:55,650 Was it was it became so safe and streamlined and it was in the pituitary space and of course, the pituitary everything. 39 00:04:55,650 --> 00:05:03,900 One one got magnification. You were looking down a beam of light instead of squinting down a narrow hole. 40 00:05:03,900 --> 00:05:09,450 Oh, it was it was such a big advance. 41 00:05:09,450 --> 00:05:19,200 But of course, when I started the investigation, the patients was really quite tricky. 42 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:30,930 We had er encephalogram which meant doing a lumbar puncture and pushing as much er up as you could and then somersaulting the patients. 43 00:05:30,930 --> 00:05:39,510 The X-ray department is all doing a bow and a ventricular ground or an angiogram. 44 00:05:39,510 --> 00:05:48,150 And I was very fortunate when I arrived here to have Phillips who was a fantastic. 45 00:05:48,150 --> 00:06:05,260 Colleague and a fantastic new radiologist, like all radiologists, he hated admitting that he was wrong. 46 00:06:05,260 --> 00:06:17,280 But I liked it. Oh, yes. And he was a fantastic colleague as a very young neurosurgeon, doing operations I had not seen before, 47 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:44,830 and but I had quite a tricky time with the guy who I liked enormously. 48 00:06:44,830 --> 00:06:58,510 A very young chap was running the show, which I really enjoyed, it was a fantastic challenge, and as Dick was waving goodbye, 49 00:06:58,510 --> 00:07:12,610 he said, Oh, by the way, I accepted that the European Society of Neurosurgeons will have their meeting in Oxford next year. 50 00:07:12,610 --> 00:07:20,610 So, you know, I was faced with doing all the surgery and running a unit trying to maintain 51 00:07:20,610 --> 00:07:27,310 this fantastic reputation that Oxford had for neurosurgery and organise this. 52 00:07:27,310 --> 00:07:28,220 Well, we'll get on to the.