Charles Justin Mullin Clark

bmj;390/aug05_2/r1638/FAF1faJustin was born in Cardiff in 1923 and educated at Cardiff High School. He was inspired from an early age to pursue a medical career and won a scholarship to study medicine at Westminster Hospital Medical School.His entire time at medical school was dominated by the second world war. As a preclinical student he was evacuated to Birmingham, where he acted as a firewatcher and V2 bombs regularly interrupted his tennis matches.He accumulated academic prizes in medicine, surgery, pharmacology, and diseases of children, graduating in 1945.He was appointed as house physician at Westminster to Adolphe Abrahams, who was the brother of Olympic gold medallist Harold Abrahams and a formidable figure usually dressed in a morning coat and wearing a monocle.In 1946 Justin was appointed house physician at the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) Boscombe before national service. He was posted to Egypt, where he was appointed medical director, achieving the rank…