Abstract
Dr Eddy Sethna was born on 3 December 1925 in Bombay, India. He won two scholarships which entirely funded his medical school training and he qualified with MB BS from Bombay in 1951. Having completed house jobs in Bombay, he became a senior house officer in medicine at the Bury and Rossendale Group
Highlights
Dr Eddy Sethna was born on 3 December 1925 in Bombay, India
Eddy’s first psychiatric appointment was as a registrar at St Francis and Lady Chichester Group of Hospitals in Sussex. He did his senior registrar training in Birmingham and was appointed in 1966 as a consultant psychiatrist to All Saints Hospital in Birmingham with an attachment to West Bromwich and District Hospital. He was awarded his MRC Psych in 1971, and in 1976 he became a consultant to Hollymoor Hospital in Birmingham and the Lyndon Clinic in Solihull
When asked to organise a registrar training programme, Eddy with typical thoroughness and attention to detail demanded that he be allowed to establish the programme from scratch, ignoring the preconceived ideas of those more senior
Summary
Dr Eddy Sethna was born on 3 December 1925 in Bombay, India. Having completed house jobs in Bombay, he became a senior house officer in medicine at the Bury and Rossendale Group of Hospitals in Lancashire in 1954, obtaining his MRCP in 1956. Having specialised in cardiology at the London Heart Hospital and Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool, he obtained a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene in preparation for his return to India as a consultant physician to the Jahangir Nursing Home in Poona.
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