ROMANCE IN HOSPITAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22356, 1 September 1934, Page 13

ROMANCE IN HOSPITAL

GIRL’S ELEVEN PRIZES

A 23-year-old doctor, Miss Jessi# Roughton Browne, listened on July 11 to a long recital of her successes at the annual prize-giving at the Loudon (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women. As Miss Browne walked back to her seat, bearing the many prizes and certificates presented to her by the vicechancellor of London University, the applause of her fellow-students rang in her ears. But her eyes sought only those of a tall sun-bronzed young man seated among the audience. The young man was Dr Norman C. Parfit, son of Canon and Mrs J, T. Parfit, of Maidenhead. They are to b« married soon. It is a romance which began and blossomed to an engagement in (he prosaic walls of the Royal Free Hospital. Miss Browne received the Gwendolen Lynn prizes for medicine and surgery, the Evans prize for obstetrics, the prize for forensic medicine and toxicology, the Richnrdson-Kuhlmann prize in senior subjects, the dean’s medal for skill in clinical medicine, and certificates for ophthalmology, public health, diseases of the ear, nose and throat, children’s diseases and dermatology. : This clever young woman won th« London University gold medal for the M.B.’s examination in May, being adjudged the most brilliant of both the men and women candidates taking the examination. ‘ Our marriage will not be allowed to interfere with Jessie’s career,” saie Dr Parfit afterwards. “Her talents are not going to be wasted. She ia going to play quite ns big a part in medicine as I myself am likely to.”