Obituaries
Jill Van der Knaap
BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r194 (Published 05 February 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r194
- Victoria Aseervatham
Jill Van der Knaap (née Close) was born in London in 1943. Despite coming from a family with no medical background, modest means, and negligible influence, she made it to the London Hospital Medical College to train as a doctor and qualified in 1967.
The London’s motto was “Nothing of man is foreign to me,” which Jill shared, with a …
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