Abstract
What with the knighthood, the Regius Chair of Medicine at Oxford University, and the Presidency of the Academy of Medical Sciences, to ask John Bell if being a Canadian by birth—and still very much by accent—has hindered his UK medical career would be faintly absurd. So, conversely, has it brought any advantages? Yes, he says. For one thing he's sidestepped traditional British pigeonholing based on schooling, parentage, and the like. And for another there's the can-do, entrepreneurial “frontier spirit” that tends to go with Canadian nationality: “This has got to work, so let's be optimistic and make it work.” Which is what he's been doing ever since he first arrived in the UK in 1975.
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