Constance Fozzard
Constance Ethel Fozzard (10 February 1933 – 14 February 2021) was an English
Biography
Fozzard was born in 1933 in
Fozzard was a house medical officer at
Fozzard was heavily involved in the British Medical Association and served as chair of its Cornish division, its regional consultants committee, and its retired members forum.[2] She was also involved in local politics, and was elected as a district councillor for Carrick and a city councillor for Truro. She died on 14 February 2021 in Truro. She and her husband had no children; her former colleague Peter Callen wrote that she was told as a registrar by a senior surgeon "that it was incompatible for a woman to have a family and become a consultant. This I believe had a bearing on her decision not to have children, which in my opinion she later regretted."[3]
References
- ^ a b Gillam, Sarah (8 March 2022). "Break the bias: Constance Fozzard". Royal College of Surgeons of England. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ S2CID 247229779.
- ^ a b Callen, Peter (29 September 2021). "Fozzard, Constance Ethel (1933 - 2021)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Retrieved 17 August 2022.