Guy's Hospital
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| Image:Guy's hospital crest.jpg | |
| Guy's Tower from London Bridge station. Hospital crest shown above | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Place | Southwark London, England, (UK) |
| Organisation | |
| Care System | Public NHS |
| Hospital Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated Med.Sch. | King's College London |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | No Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | Unknown |
| Speciality | Dentistry |
| History | |
| Founded | 1721 |
| Links | |
| Website | Guy's & St Thomas' Trust Homepage |
| See also | Hospitals in England |
Guy's Hospital is a large NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in south east London. It is administratively a part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. It is a large teaching hospital and is home to the King's College London Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at Guy's, King's College and St Thomas's Hospitals (formerly known as the GKT School of Medicine).
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[edit] History to the current time
It was founded in 1721 by Sir Thomas Guy (1644/45-December 27th 1724), a publisher who had made a fortune in the South Sea Bubble. It was originally established as a hospital to treat "incurables" discharged from St Thomas' Hospital.
Guy's has expanded over the centuries. In 1974 it added the 34 storey Guy's Tower. At 143 metres (469 feet) high, this is the tallest hospital building in the world, and the 11th tallest building in London.
Other buildings on the Guy's campus include the original 18th century chapel.
Guy's Tower is divided into two sections of which the top floors (floors 18-30) represent the dental school, where students of King's College London Dental School study and practice, and the lower floors (Ground-18) represent the medical departments.
Over 8,000 staff work in Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital. They are two of the oldest teaching hospitals, nearly 900 years old, and they are situated right in the heart of the capital. One of the services that the trust provides is dental care, looking after over 120,000 patients a year.
[edit] Guy's Dental Hospital
Guy's Hospital near London Bridge (5 mins walk from the overground/underground stations) is home to the largest dental hospital in Europe. Its services include routine dentistry, dental surgery, oral medicine and specialist dentistry. In addition Guy's also provides emergency dental services, and oral and facial surgery with the majority of work being performed by students.
Dental work involves dental surgeons, as well as dental nurses, dental hygenists, dental therapists and dental technicians; all of which are equally important to the efficiency of the hospital's dental care services.
Dental technicians are the people who make false teeth, crowns, bridges and braces. They use a range of materials to design and make appliances, including gold, porcelain and plastic. Their job affects how patients look, how they talk, and even how they chew their food!
[edit] Developments and changes
On 31 October 2005 children's departments at Guy's moved to the newly constructed Evelina Children's Hospital.
The Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases was built following a generous donation from the Wolfson Foundation. This centre brings under one roof a number of research groups dedicated to improving outcomes of conditions including Alzheimer's disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury.
[edit] Famous physicians who worked at Guy's
- Thomas Addison, discoverer of Addison's disease
- Thomas Hodgkin, discoverer of Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Richard Bright, discoverer of Bright's disease
- Sir Astley Cooper, discoverer of the Cooper's ligaments of the breasts
- Edward Cock, surgeon and nephew of Sir Astley Cooper
- Sir Samuel Wilks
- Sir Alfred Poland, the first to describe Poland's syndrome
- Sir Frederick Hopkins, discoverer of vitamins
- Sir William Withey Gull, the first to describe myxoedema
- James Hinton, otologist
- John Hilton, great anatomist and surgeon
- Humphry Osmond, psychiatrist who worked with psychedelic drugs and coined the term
- John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield
- Frederick William Pavy, worked with Richard Bright, one of the founders and presidents of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
- John Braxton Hicks, obstetrician, discoverer of the Braxton Hicks uterine contractions
- Gerard Folliott Vaughan, UK psychiatrist, who became a politician and minister of state during Margaret Thatcher's government
[edit] See also
- Guy's Hospital Football Club founded in (1843) has a claim to being the oldest (rugby) football club still in existence.
- Tall buildings in London
