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Professor John Blandy

By Unknown - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2411396The living witness programme aims to record the recollections and experiences of pioneering clinicians who have helped to shape the practice of modern urology.

These clinicians have been interviewed by Dominic Hodgson as part of a journal series called "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants". Their recollections have been recorded here for the education and enjoyment of contemporary (and future) urologists.

So far, three other key urological figures from the recent past have been interviewed - the late Mr John Wickham, the late Sir David Innes Williams and Mr Richard Turner Warwick.


Professor John Blandy

John Blandy was born in India. He trained in Oxford, at The London Hospital and at St Peter’s Hospital London. He was one of the most influential forces in the popularisation of TURP in the UK.

Click here to view a PDF of the full text of the interview from the British Journal of Medical & Surgical Urology 2011; 4(4): 135-138.

Listen to John Blandy talking about the "battle" to introduce TURP

John Blandy died on 23 July 2011, aged 83
Click here to read his obituary by former President of BAUS, Mr Adrian Joyce

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