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The 100th Annual Dinner of the Gaskell Club for Winners of the Gold Medal was held at the Royal College of Psychiatrists on 30 October 1987.Looking round the tables I was struck by the number of people who had worked at the Maudsley, a tangible reminder of the contribution of that centre of excellence to psychiatry.I do not doubt that the standard of psychiatry at the Maudsley remains as high as it ever has been, but inevitably my thoughts ran to the post-war period when, as a 21 year old, it seemed one was surrounded by giants.

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  • Looking round the tables I was struck by the number of people who had worked at the Maudsley, a tangible reminder of the contribution ofthat centre of excellence to psychiatry

  • I do not doubt that the standard of psychiatry at the Maudsley remains as high as it ever has been, but inevitably my thoughts ran to the post-war period when, as a 21 year old, it seemed one was surrounded by giants

  • In a sense this was true for medicine as a whole; certainly those who went to the National Hospital, Queen Square, for a valued six-month neurological attachment returned with breathless accounts of the larger-than-life personalities there!

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Looking round the tables I was struck by the number of people who had worked at the Maudsley, a tangible reminder of the contribution ofthat centre of excellence to psychiatry. I do not doubt that the standard of psychiatry at the Maudsley remains as high as it ever has been, but inevitably my thoughts ran to the post-war period when, as a 21 year old, it seemed one was surrounded by giants.

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