Dr Gerald Hochschild
Personal Details
Dr Gerald Hochschild FFARCS MRCS LRCP DA
1900 to 1971
Place of birth: Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality: South African
CRN: 725887
Education and qualifications
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General education |
South African College School; St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS LRCP, 1923 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1954 |
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Other qualification(s) |
DA(RCP&S), 1935, passing the very first examination |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
No information has emerged on early appointments, but he is thought to have returned to South Africa soon after qualifying, and eventually became honorary anaesthetist to both Somerset Hospital and the Free Dispensary in Cape Town. He is recorded as returning to London circa 1930/1, but again there are no details until 1934 when the Medical Directory notes him as honorary anaesthetist to All Saints, East Ham War Memorial, Golden Square Throat, Italian & Queen Mary’s (for the East End) Hospitals. These appointments continued, but at various times he also worked at Queens Square, University College, the London Chest and the Royal Northern Hospitals. During WW2 he served in the Emergency Medical Service, notably its Thoracic Unit, and then in 1945/6 went back to South Africa and specialist practice in Johannesburg. He retired from this in 1960, but then spent 7-8 years as a GP/Anaesthetist with a mining company in Zambia.
Professional interests and activities
Published papers on a range of anaesthetic subjects before WW2, and involved himself very enthusiastically with the newly formed South African Society on his return in 1945, serving as president for 1951-2.
Other biographical information
Married Anne (known as Nan) Wild in 1929, but she predeceased him. Described as the perfect gentleman, an excellent host and a popular, outstanding & respected colleague.
Author and sources
Author: Prof Tony Wildsmith
Sources and any other comments: Obituary. S Afr Med J 30 Oct, 1971: 1124 | Parbhoo N. Five Decades: The South African Society of Anaesthetists 1943-93. Johannesburg: South African Sociaty of Anaesthetists, 1993 | Medical Directory | Ancestry.co.uk