Marjorie Warren
From Ganfyd
Marjorie W. Warren [1](1897-1960) initially practised as a surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital. She was Deputy Medical Superintendent in 1935 when the Poor Law Infirmary next door was annexed into it. In 1943 and 1946 she blamed the high number of elderly, bedridden and chronically sick patients she and her team found in this Infirmary on poor diagnosis, insufficient treatment, and the absence of proper medical supervision, multidisciplinary working or rehabilitation. By producing convincing evidence that this was the case,[2] she helped to found the British speciality of geriatric medicine
