Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2013 | Page 15

INTERVIEW

Anthony as a young Sea Scout

as advisor to the Government of
Botswana, the Royal Air Force, the
United States Air Force and the
Egyptian Army,” he said. “I was also
in Haiti shortly after their earthquake
three years ago, mainly treating crush
injuries.” He said: “I was just doing
whatever needed doing –amputations
and occasionally burns.”
During his time at Stoke Mandeville
Hospital Anthony and his team treated
around 400 major and minor burns
victims each year from an area that
covered five million people, but he
admits he was never one for statistics
so has no idea just how many patients
worldwide he has treated.
He has seen many advances in the
treatment of burns, some of them too
gory to go into detail. But he prides
himself on the fact that during his
time at Stoke Mandeville he reduced
the average time of a patient’s stay
from 26 days down to nine days
because of early surgery, rather than
delay operations, a procedure that had
always been the norm.
Anthony set up a research charity

at Stoke Mandeville to raise funds
to look into the