Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1
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Gillies and the Face Maker
Gillies was a prankster. He was a jokester. He was an amateur golferhe he had won many champions is. But i think it was his sense of humor that really served him and his patients well in the midst of all this horror. It during world war one. And so i'll give you an example. At the queen's hospital in sid cup, there were all kinds of rules about what the soldiers couldn'tn' do. So they couldn't drink, they couldn't gamble. But gillies occasionally would dress up in this alternative persona, which he called doctor scrogy. And he would go on to the wards and he'd bring champagne and
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