Edwards Matthew L, Waisel David B
From the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, School of Medicine, Galveston, Texas (M.L.E.); and Harvard Medical School, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (D.B.W.).
Anesthesiology. 2016 Jun;124(6):1222-9. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001082.
Geoffrey Kaye, M.B.B.S. (1903 to 1986), was a prominent Australian anesthetist, researcher, and educator who envisioned that anesthesia practice in Australia would be comparable to European and American anesthesia practice during the 1940s and 1950s. Kaye's close relationship with Francis Hoeffer McMechan, M.D., F.I.C.A. (1879 to 1939), which began when Kaye left a favorable impression on McMechan at a meeting of the Australasian Medical Congress in 1929, eventually led Kaye to establish an educational center for the Australian Society of Anaesthetists at 49 Mathoura Road, Toorak, Melbourne, Australia, in 1951. The center served as the "Scientific Headquarters" and the Australian Society of Anaesthetists' official headquarters from 1951 to 1955. Although anesthesia's recognition as a specialty was at the heart of the center, Kaye hoped that this "experiment in medical education"-equipped with a library, museum, laboratory, workshop, darkroom, and meeting space-would "bring anaesthetists of all lands together" in Australia. The lack of member participation in Kaye's center, however, led Kaye to dissolve the center by 1955. Previous research has documented the history of Kaye's center from correspondence between Kaye and influential American anesthesiologist Paul M. Wood, M.D. (1894 to 1953), from 1939 to 1955. Through letters Kaye sent to American anesthesiologist Paul M. Wood, M.D. (1894 to 1963), the authors see Kaye's detailed plans, design, and intent for the center at 49 Mathoura Road. Comparisons of Kaye's letters to Wood during the 1950s with his letters to Gwenifer Wilson, M.D., M.B.B.S. (1916 to 1988), during the 1980s illustrate a change in Kaye's perceptions regarding the failure of the center.
杰弗里·凯，医学学士（1903年至1986年），是澳大利亚一位杰出的麻醉师、研究员和教育家，他设想在20世纪40年代和50年代，澳大利亚的麻醉实践能与欧美国家的麻醉实践相媲美。1929年，凯在澳大利亚医学大会的一次会议上给弗朗西斯·霍弗·麦克梅肯，医学博士，澳大利亚皇家澳大利亚外科学院院士（1879年至1939年）留下了良好印象，此后两人建立了密切关系，这最终促使凯于1951年在澳大利亚墨尔本图拉克马图拉路49号为澳大利亚麻醉师协会设立了一个教育中心。1951年至1955年期间，该中心作为“科学总部”以及澳大利亚麻醉师协会的官方总部。尽管麻醉作为一个专业的认可度是该中心的核心，但凯希望这个配备了图书馆、博物馆、实验室、车间、暗房和会议空间的“医学教育实验”能在澳大利亚“将各国的麻醉师聚集在一起”。然而，由于会员对凯的中心参与度不高，凯于1955年解散了该中心。此前的研究通过1939年至1955年期间凯与有影响力的美国麻醉学家保罗·M·伍德，医学博士（1894年至1953年）之间的通信记录了凯的中心的历史。通过凯寄给美国麻醉学家保罗·M·伍德，医学博士（1894年至1963年）的信件，作者们了解到了凯对马图拉路49号中心的详细规划、设计和意图。将凯在20世纪50年代写给伍德的信件与他在20世纪80年代写给格温妮弗·威尔逊，医学博士，医学学士（1916年至1988年）的信件进行比较，可以看出凯对该中心失败的看法发生了变化。
