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Professor Bob Smal Wood (87) deceased
Professor Bob Smal Wood is deceased at the age of 87. De Telegraaf, which Smalhout years had a column, made around 04.30 known that he was an hour earlier deceased in his home in Bosch en Duin in Utrecht.
"His death is a great loss for this newspaper, also in personal terms for editors and editors," can be read on the newspaper's website. "More than twenty years, wrote Professor Smalhout for De Telegraaf weekly columns about social events that touched him were angry or was touched."
Death on the table
Wood was narrow in 1972 in one fell swoop famous when he was appointed as professor at the University of Utrecht. In his speech, the death on the table, he argued that every year 200 people died unnecessarily due to errors with the anesthesia. On the cover of his oration put Smalhout headlines of medical errors and the title in crimson letters.
Colleagues were furious about the form it had chosen Smalhout, but relatives and patients were thankful that he broached the subject. There was a commission, whose Smalhout belonged, who suggested improvements. Thus, henceforth, any patient was anesthetized, monitored, whereas previously only happened in cardiac patients.
Because of his fame and critical attitude was Smalhout often asked as a witness expert when it came to medical complaints. "His name is inextricably linked with the term" medical mistake, '"concluded trade journal Medisch Contact once. His expertise was beyond dispute: as Smalhout was anesthetist of the royal family.
LPF
In 1992 he retired as a professor. Two years later he began his column on the cutting edge in De Telegraaf. Despite deteriorating health, he continued to write until his death; the final text of Smalhout was late last month in the newspaper.
In 2003 Smalhout leader for the LPF in the Upper House elections. He eventually took no seat in parliament because he had to give up his column in the newspaper.
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