On September 7th, at the Engineer’s House, 70 or so people met from all walks of David Cahill’s professional life to pay tribute to him and finally escorting him off the premises. A host of speakers contributed to this – perhaps the most entertaining were an old university friend of his (Mr John Reidy, retd vascular surgeon) and his wife (Dr Eileen O’Sullivan) both of whom revealed sides to his past he clearly would have preferred to have kept secret.
There was a brief appearance by a gorilla (actually a retired gynae-oncologist, but its sometimes hard to tell the difference). There were some very moving tributes by some of his (now successful) past trainees and a lovely gorilla island cake appeared for the tea break. There were several O&G trainees and consultants there who David had taught in the past, and he was delighted to see them.
The Dean of Health Sciences, Jonathan Sandy, spoke about David’s career running the medical programme, and outlining in detail (a painful memory for David) the contrasting experiences of the two GMC visits to the medical school in 2008 and 2017. It was a great day.
a brief gorilla encounter
the common theme here is grey hair
Gorilla island cake
Dr Willem Verpoest, ex-trainee, Dr Lane Mears, ex-student