Dr Marion Cameron
PA Dunedin Dr Marion Cameron, a Dunedin general practitioner and leading anaesthetist lecturer, died last Saturday. She was 88.
Dr Cameron was born in Glasgow and was educated at Napier High School and Otago Girls’ High School, before moving to the Otago
Medical School from where she graduated in 1918. In 1928 she was appointed the first lecturer in anaesthetics at the university of Otago and for the next 20 years taught all fifth-year students. She was known by her students as “Maid Marion.”
When the College of Surgeons in England introduced its diploma of anaesthesia
she was elected to a foundation diploma and also became a fellow of the faculty of anaesthetics in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1954.
Her career as an anaesthetist stretched from the chloroform-kitchen table era through to the complexity of modem anaesthetics for neuro and thoracic surgery.
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