Leslie Bow Bartlet

Leslie was born in Southampton in 1928 but when he was 8 his family returned to Aberdeen, which remained his spiritual home. He qualified from Aberdeen University in 1951 and his first house job was, unusually, in a mental hospital in Scotland. In 2017 he published a vivid account of his time there, noting the seismic change in psychiatric practice during his long career.

After house jobs he undertook national service, treating soldiers during the Korean War. As the only qualified doctor in his unit, and with no senior support, he relied on his resilience and intuition to make clinical …