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issue_111.qxp 19/07/2007 13:22 Page 1 NEWSLETTER NO.111 JULY 2007 issue_111.qxp 19/07/2007 13:22 Page 2 CHANGES TO THE NEWSLETTER: A REMINDER The School Development Office has recently launched the KCS Community Newsletter. This is published six times a year, and contains news of the whole King’s Community – Senior and Junior Schools, the Rowans, the Squirrels, the Friends of KCS, the Community Partnership Programmes with other local schools and, of course, some news of the OKC. The OKC Committee believes that the KCS Community Newsletter would be of interest to OKC Newsletter subscribers, and has arranged to fund its supply and distribution without, for the time being at least, any increase in subscriptions. The usual OKC Newsletter will continue (but without the inclusion of School news) as an enclosure in three of the six Community Newsletters, all the contents being supplied by the OKC office, as usual. This is the second of the new-style OKC Newsletters. The Hon Secretary would be pleased to hear any comments from readers about the change. FORTHCOMING EVENTS OLD KING’S CLUB 2nd September 2007 OKC v School Boat Race (check date with OKC office) 6th October 2007 The Annual Gaudy will be held at the School 23rd November 2007 OKC Annual Dinner at the School (see below) 8th December 2007 OKC v School Cross Country Race SCHOOL Autumn term 2007 begins on Tuesday 4th September and ends on Thursday 13th December. Half term (two weeks) is from Monday 22nd October to Friday 2nd November. OKC ANNUAL DINNER Advance notice This year our Annual Dinner will once again be held in the School Dining Hall The date is Friday 16th November 2007 Please make a note in your diaries now, to be sure that you do not miss this event. Full details will be included in the next KCS Community Newsletter, which will be sent to you in October 2007. 2 issue_111.qxp 19/07/2007 13:22 Page 3 SECRETARY’S NOTES in December 2007, must reach the OKC CLUB OFFICE Office by 16th November 2007. The Old King’s Club office is in the Lodge The Old King’s Club is not responsible (next to the Sports Hall) and is open on for individual opinions expressed in the Tuesday and Thursday mornings from OKC Newsletter. Editorials and other 10.00 am to 1.00 pm; callers are welcome. contributions do not necessarily represent Our telephone number is 020 8255 5390. the views or policies of the Club, the Club In addition, messages can be left during Committee, or the Editor, except where School hours on any day with the School explicitly identified as such. switchboard operator on 020 8255 5300; you can fax us at any time on 020 8255 THE NEWSLETTER ONLINE 5439, or send an e-mail to [email protected]. This Newsletter is now available, password protected, on the OKC website at SCHOOL SHOP www.okc.org.uk Members may now view it A wide range of OKC items, as well as there, and if desired, print their own copies. leisureware, is available from the School To find out how to do this, all you need to Shop in the Lodge. The opening hours, do is to e-mail the OKC office at telephone number, and other information [email protected] giving your name and are available on the School web site, current postal address, and you will receive www.kcs.org.uk. full instructions. THE NEWSLETTER THIS ISSUE Layout and distribution of this Newsletter This issue of the newsletter fetaures a full were carried out by Tristan Bradley of the report from the KCS Old Boys Rugby Development Office, from material edited Football Club in this, their centenary year. by Bryan Stokes of the OKC Office. The front cover photograph is an action Contributions for future issues are always shot of the 1st XV taken by Trevor Wingate. welcome, and should be sent to The Editor, Old King’s Club, King’s College School, THE SCHOOL WEB SITE Wimbledon, London SW19 4TT; or they Visit the KCS web site at www.kcs.org.uk may be faxed to 020 8255 5439 or sent by for all the latest information about activities e-mail to [email protected]. Material for in the School and news of the School. inclusion in the next issue, to be published 3 issue_111.qxp 19/07/2007 13:22 Page 4 OKC GAP YEAR AWARDS vaccinations. Speaking to inpatients and ALI MURAD was one of the recipients of an attending ward-rounds was also an excellent OKC Gap Year Award in 2006. Ali, who is way to learn. Patients, their families and studying Medicine at Oxford University, doctors were all extremely friendly and keen received his award to help him undertake his to help. medical elective for about one month each at the I was also able to spend several days Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi, India, and the working in the paediatric ICU, the paediatric Port of Spain General Hospital, Trinidad. He emergency department and the neonatal sent us this report of his activities. department. All of these placements provided Sir Ganga Ram Hospital runs a busy opportunities to see pathologies that I had paediatric department, which includes had few opportunities to see in Oxford. inpatient beds, numerous outpatient clinics, a The Eric Williams Medical Sciences paediatric intensive care unit, and an accident Complex in Trinidad was also a large, and emergency department. multidisciplinary teaching hospital. I spent I spent most of my time in paediatric the majority of my time in the Accident and clinics and speaking to paediatric inpatients, Emergency department. This was an their families and their doctors. Attending extremely busy department dealing with a paediatric clinics was particularly valuable. wide range of conditions. I saw a large Many clinics were held each day, including a amount of asthma, road traffic accident wide range of specialist clinics such as victims and sickle cell disease, which has a paediatric neurology, paediatric high prevalence throughout the Caribbean. endocrinology and paediatric rheumatology. The general outpatient clinics, which were BILAL KAHLOON also received an OKC Gap held every day and open to everyone, free of Year Award in 2006. Bilal is studying Medicine charge and regardless of appointments were at University College London, and received his particularly memorable! They took place in award to help him undertake his medical small rooms into which two doctors, two elective at the Aga Khan University patients and their families were crammed. Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. He sent us There was no organised queuing system, with this report. the result that the room was often also filled Before Christmas I had the opportunity to with other patients who wanted to ensure that work at the Aga Khan University Hospital they were seen next. (AKUH) in Karachi, Pakistan, for two These clinics provided a fantastic months as part of my final year medical opportunity to see pathologies not usually elective. The AKUH is a huge hospital on a seen in England. These included numerous sprawling site, boasting almost 600 beds with suspected cases of tuberculosis, and treatment 38,000 patients admitted annually. The for the disease was often commenced before a hospital serves as a specialist centre for firm diagnosis had been made. I was able to virtually every condition, taking referrals from examine patients, suggest diagnoses and help around the country. with simple practical procedures such as I pursued an elective in infectious diseases, 4 issue_111.qxp 19/07/2007 13:22 Page 5 with the intention of studying different forms infected blood being administered and felt of tuberculosis infection, in an area where it that my UK immunisations would make me endemic. However, upon my arrival the first unlikely to harbour any disease that may be English-language newspaper I picked up at passed on! Fortunately the young man the airport read “Viral Haemorrhagic Fever recovered well without a transfusion. Cases Rise” across the front page. It was The experience of both the AKUH and immediately apparent the focus of my study living in Karachi for two months were was about to change. certainly eye-opening and most useful. This As fate would have it, an unusually wet trip would not have been possible without the summer (combined with poor sewerage generous support of the OKC, to whom I am systems across the city) led to an altered most grateful. pattern of mosquito migration, leaving the city victim to a ferocious Dengue Fever A total of three Gap Year Awards have been epidemic. During the course of my stay I made for 2007. The recipients, all of whom are attended to over 100 patients afflicted with at present students in the School sixth form, are: the disease and wrote up the first clinical EDWARD ALLEN. to teach English at a study of the epidemic, which will be school in China; published this coming summer. QUIN MURRAY, to work distributing Beyond Dengue, I had the chance to clothes and toys to children in Nepal; and observe conditions every day that would never ALEX RODIN, to work on a conservation be found in British hospitals. These tended to project in Tanzania. fall into two groups: those diseases due to tropical infection; and those that would have THE GEORGIAN SOCIETY been caught by a doctor much earlier in their A group of boys who had shared the course. The advanced conditions represented experience of the war years at KCS decided an extreme of medicine that one only reads in 1946-47 to found a small about in textbooks or occasionally sees on the drinking/dining club, which they named television programme “House”.