ABSTRACT
In January 1954, the authors spotted an advertisement for an assistantship with view in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The practice had been started three years earlier by Philip Sattin. At the Manor Way surgery the main competitor was Dr. Bowman, a very nice man who had been in practice in Kensington and had been appointed by the Executive Council to the vacancy in Borehamwood. Carl Hodes was interested in practice organisation and also in the use of computers in medicine. The philosophy of the practice permitted each of the doctors to involve themselves in other activities apart from medicine while their colleagues supported them. Shirley had been working intermittently as a casualty officer and as a clinical officer in family planning clinics. Philip Sattin had been involved in the making of medical films, and any money that he made from that enterprise was excluded from the practice income.
