Consultant neuroradiologist Ian Turnbull tells Adrian O’Dowd why he was determined to remain involved in training doctors despite retiring
Retirement does not mean a doctor has to stop loving medicine or wanting to be involved in training the next generation of clinicians, says Ian Turnbull.
Edinburgh born Turnbull was a consultant neuroradiologist at North Manchester General Hospital for 19 years and then at Salford Royal Hospital until his retirement in 2008. Since then, until very recently, he was an honorary consultant neuroradiologist to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in a teaching role for fourth year medical students at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Wales, and a teaching lead at Glan Clwyd Hospital.
Turnbull has never lost his enthusiasm for medicine. “To this day …