Richard Clarke, a good natured, mild mannered, and distinguished looking man, with a full mane of white hair, had a highly distinguished career in anaesthetics in Belfast. He played a key role in developing the regional intensive care and cardiac intensive care units after postgraduate training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, involving early work in cardiopulmonary bypass. He was also Ireland’s greatest medical historian, according to Barry O’Donnell, author of Irish Surgeons and Surgery in the 20th Century. Clarke, described by O’Donnell as someone obsessed with “getting things right without resorting to nit picking,” was honorary archivist of the Royal Victoria Infirmary between 1994 and 2012. He wrote its history (1797-1997) and a biography of Ian Fraser, a surgeon who was noted for charming patients and who won a distinguished service order in the Italian campaign during the second world war. Fraser also led a military team testing a “new drug”—penicillin. While the prodigiously academic Clarke enjoyed writing about colourful characters he did not shy away from drier work, compiling a comprehensive directory of Ulster doctors qualifying before …

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理查德·克拉克（Richard Clarke）：麻醉师和医学历史学家，他的墓地研究帮助许多业余家谱学家追踪他们的家谱

理查德·克拉克 （Richard Clarke） 是一位性情善良、举止温和、相貌端正的人，留着一头白发，在贝尔法斯特的麻醉学事业中有着非常杰出的成就。在伦敦圣巴塞洛缪医院接受研究生培训后，他在开发区域重症监护和心脏重症监护病房方面发挥了关键作用，涉及体外循环的早期工作。根据《20 世纪爱尔兰外科医生和外科》的作者巴里·奥唐奈 （Barry O'Donnell） 的说法，他也是爱尔兰最伟大的医学历史学家。克拉克被 O'Donnell 描述为痴迷于“把事情做好而不诉诸吹毛求疵”的人，他在 1994 年至 2012 年期间担任皇家维多利亚医院的名誉档案员。他撰写了该协会的历史（1797-1997 年）和伊恩·弗雷泽 （Ian Fraser） 的传记，伊恩·弗雷泽 （Ian Fraser） 是一位外科医生，以迷人的患者而闻名，并在第二次世界大战期间的意大利战役中赢得了杰出的服务勋章。弗雷泽还领导了一个军事小组测试一种“新药”——青霉素。虽然非常学术的克拉克喜欢写丰富多彩的人物，但他并没有回避更枯燥的工作，编制了一份全面的阿尔斯特医生名录，之前......