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Hannah has just been asked to sit on a Consultant Appointments Committee as Royal College representative. It is at her old teaching hospital, which has over 30 eye consultants. By chance, it is for the Oculoplastic department. Hannah is an Emeritus Professor of Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery in Switzerland. When the first Orbital post came up at the hospital in 1980, there were 3 candidates: Robin Bosanquet ( who now denies, to me, that he attended the appointments committee ) who developed Orbital Ultra-sound scanning as a new service in the same hospital: myself who had worked in Glasgow with the 'legendary' Mustardé; and, an in-experienced young woman who claimed a CV in the USA when her husband was working there. At the interview, Robin stormed out when her name was called. She showed absolutely no surprise whatsoever; I shook her hand ( nothing lost ) and said 'well done Joan'- the look of hatred on her face told me all.
She went part-time, organised never to be on-call; and, had bust-ups with the other Oculoplastic specialists allegedly. She retired many years ago, and rumour has it that management had accidentally always paid her a full-time salary. Ridgway and Rosen got the person they deserved: they knew there was something not quite right about my previous self- and they were correct in their assumption.
Oh! My cousin is 'lord of the Manor' in the Cotswold village that Joan and husband finally retired to. At a family funeral last year Roger mentioned that he would invite them to dinner when i was down: they are apparently 'splendid company', and spoke extremely highly of me and our joint friendship! How will they cope with Hannah?
Allegedly, one of the in-post Oculoplastic surgeons is a Homophobe, and allegedly attacked a guest Professor from London in the toilets at a post conference banquet. The assault was apparently severe enough to have him admitted with blood in his urine. I wonder if it was hushed up. Oh, he was mistaken, the professor could be thought to be' effeminate' , but had a wife and children and was happily married.
If he is on the selection committee, how will he ever cope with a trans-woman who is a third-dan blackbelt in Judo, ( Trained under G K Koizume, Hosake and Watanabe ) and does not take prisoners?
