This Article Full Text (PDF) Services Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Search for Related Content

The Faculty of Radiologists—Annual Meeting in Manchester

It is extremely difficult to organise a metropolitan or provincial scientific meeting in times like these, and it is pleasant, therefore, to have the task of writing a note on one that was successful far beyond any reasonable expectations. The temptation to enquire into the basis of its success is not to be resisted.

In the first place, the number attending it was surprisingly large, and taxed the resources of the hotel accommodation committee to the limit. All told, about one hundred members of the Faculty attended, and, in addition, there were many guests and visitors at the various sessions and functions. Several factors were responsible. The scientific programme looked interesting on paper, and in fact exceeded all expectations. Another factor was the experiment of arranging all accommodation and the main meetings in one hotel. This gave members a unique opportunity of extending the contacts of the scientific meeting to an informal social sphere. The chance thus provided of meeting colleagues, who until then were but names, was greatly appreciated by many. A final factor was perhaps the mass reaction of the radiological herd to make at least one meeting a success though the heavens fall.On Friday morning, after a commendably brief business meeting, a number of diagnostic papers were read. The high quality of these may be judged when they appear in subsequent issues of the JOURNAL.

The radiotherapy demonstration at the Holt-Christie Hospital on Friday afternoon demands special mention, since no formal record of it exists.