Bones and flat whites

Priya Nathwani

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When I’m not being bleeped every seven minutes in Whitechapel, I go and look at other people’s bad days preserved in glass. These are the places I end up when I want medicine without the crash bleep, a half-decent coffee nearby, and a reminder that however grim my on-calls get, at least nobody is sawing a leg off without anaesthetic. Think of it as continuing professional development with better lighting. Triage complete: all worth a visit; some best taken with a strong espresso first.

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Name	Type	Focus	Address	City	My take
1Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret	Historic surgical theatre museum	Pre-anaesthetic surgery and apothecary history	St Thomas’ Church, 9A St Thomas Street, SE1 9RY	London	Climb the spiral staircase, contemplate sawing through a femur without propofol, then go back to work feeling oddly grateful for the bleep.
2Hunterian Museum	Surgical and anatomical museum	Anatomical specimens and history of surgery	Royal College of Surgeons of England, 38–43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A 3PE	London	Wall-to-wall jars of things you never want to find on your CT list. Morbid, meticulous and a good reminder to document everything.
3Royal College of Physicians Museum	College museum and galleries	History of physicians, medical practice and collections	11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, NW1 4LE	London	Part portraits, part curiosities, part ‘how on earth did they practise without MR scanners’. Also good for pretending you’re the sort of person who reads monographs for fun.
4Medicine Galleries at the Science Museum	Permanent galleries in national museum	500 years of medical technology and stories	Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, SW7 2DD	London	Like walking through the world’s tidiest on-call cupboard, if the on-call cupboard contained iron lungs and early MRI scanners. Take non-medical friends and watch their faces.

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