TY - JOUR T1 - Enduring memories: a paediatric gastroenterologist remembers—a tale of London and Sydney JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 891 LP - 891 DO - 10.1136/adc.2003.041673 VL - 89 IS - 9 AU - J M Fell Y1 - 2004/09/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/89/9/891.1.abstract N2 - J Walker-Smith. The Memoir Club, 2003. £17.50 (hardback), pp 299. ISBN 1841040525 John Walker-Smith describes himself as an inveterate collector, and in this autobiography he has drawn together his personal collection of memories, anecdotes, and most importantly people; some 400 are indexed. They are, as one would expect, mostly friends and acquaintances acquired during a distinguished career, although there is the occasional adversary or rival. For the younger reader many of the descriptions of life as a young doctor will be strikingly familiar even if separated by 30 or 40 years, while the image of early morning tea brought to one’s room by a domestic, and communal roast dinner carved by the resident medical officer … ER -