The Anonymous Widower

The University Doctor Smellie

The GP at Liverpool University in C’s and my time there was a Doctor Smellie.  He was one of the better GPs I’ve had and I’ve been lucky to have at least two good ones.

When C became pregnant with our first child, she went to see him and he suggested she have a home birth. Not something that she was thinking of and she wnt to Oxford Street Maternity Hospital instead.

If you research the name Smellie amongst doctors you’ll find an interesting history, including a William Smellie, who is sometimes called the father of British midwifery.  So perhaps the good Dr. Smellie was just wanting to follow the family tradition.

January 24, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Health, World | Childbirth, Liverpool University