Medicine haunts

Desmond Okafor

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Places I end up when the clinic has finally stopped ringing and the Leyton Orient highlights have buffered to death. Not all of them are strictly fun, but they do a decent job of reminding you why we bother with the day job. History, pathology pots, a few quiet desks, and one very specific Soho pub… anyway.

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Medicine haunts — 6 items
Name	Address	City	My take
1Hunterian Museum	Royal College of Surgeons of England, 38–43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE	London	If you ever wanted to know what 18th‑century surgeons did for fun, it’s mostly in jars here. Great for perspective before moaning about QOF.
2Royal College of Physicians Museum	11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE	London	Calm, slightly austere, full of people in portraits judging your clinic letters. The garden’s a nice place to remember to prescribe a walk.
3Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret	9A St Thomas’ Street, London SE1 9RY	London	Pre‑anaesthetic surgery in a church attic. After this, even our clunkiest EMIS template feels quite humane.
4Florence Nightingale Museum	Florence Nightingale Museum, St Thomas’ Hospital, 2 Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EP	London	If you’re tired of arguing about staffing ratios, go and look at where modern nursing started. Slightly humbling, in a good way.
5Bethlem Museum of the Mind	Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham BR3 3BX	London	Mental health history, art, and the reminder that our ‘new’ ideas usually aren’t. Worth the trek when you need a longer view.
6St Bartholomew’s Hospital Archives & Museum	North Wing, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE	London	Nine centuries of looking after Londoners, which makes a Monday duty surgery feel fairly small. Good excuse for a wander round Smithfield after.

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