Andrew Doughty was a leading anesthetist

Anesthesiologist

An anesthesiologist or anaesthetist is a physician trained in anesthesia and peri-operative medicine....

. In 1957, he invented the Doughty gag, with a split blade, (which allows use of an endotracheal tube) and is in universal use to this day. In 1973, he set up an epidural

Epidural

The term epidural is often short for epidural analgesia, a form of regional analgesia involving injection of drugs through a catheter placed into the epidural space...

 course at Kingston Hospital

Kingston Hospital

Kingston Hospital is an acute NHS hospital in Kingston upon Thames, South West London. It has an Accident & Emergency Unit, a popular midwife-led Maternity unit, and an STD clinic known as the Wolverton Centre...

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He was born in 1916 and qualified from St Thomas's Hospital in 1941. Doughty is now retired living in Thames Ditton

Thames Ditton

Thames Ditton is a village in Surrey, England, bordering Greater London. It is situated 12.2 miles south-west of Charing Cross between the towns of Kingston upon Thames, Surbiton, Esher and East Molesey...

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Recent reports that the author of the Hawaii books by the same name is the same Dr.