David Sells Hurwood

Guy's Hospital medical students who went to Belsen. Pictured from left to right: D. Davies, D. Strange, J. S. Jones, D. Rahilly, D. Westbury, M. E. Davys, D. S. Hurwood, D. H. Forsdick, J. V. Kilby, J. E. Mandel, J. L. Hayward and J. A. Turner.[1]

David Sells Hurwood (1924 – 22 May 2005) was a British general practitioner in Syston and founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. In 1945, while studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. Here, he developed tuberculosis.[2][3][4]

Selected publications

• "Out-of-hours calls in a Leicestershire practice". British Medical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 6025 (26 June 2006), pp. 1582–1584. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.6025.1582

References

1. "The Relief of Belsen Concentration Camp". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
2. "Obituary: David Sells Hurwood". British Medical Journal, Vol. 331, 2005, p.519. doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7515.519-a
3. Vella, E. E. (1984). "Belsen: Medical Aspects of a World War II Concentration Camp" (PDF). Journal Royal Army Medical Corps. 130 (1): 34–59. doi:10.1136/jramc-130-01-08. PMID 6371230. S2CID 32520347.
4. "The relief of Belsen concentration camp". The Guy's Hospital Medical School contingent, Imperial War Museum