{"id":341998,"date":"2025-08-13T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341998\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:03:11","slug":"tributes-as-former-birmingham-doctor-dies-aged-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341998\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes as former Birmingham doctor dies aged 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Her intelligence and warmth earned her early praise as &#8216;clever, pretty and kind&#8217; \u2013 a description that would remain true throughout her long life,&#8221; a spokesperson for the NHS Trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Pauline was known not only for her clinical excellence but also for the deep compassion she showed to patients and their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Her impact was so significant that many former patients contributed to a special birthday book in her honour, filled with notes of gratitude and stories of lives touched by her care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While she never married or had children, the spokesperson said &#8220;Pauline nurtured deep friendships and maintained connections with her schoolmates and colleagues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was godmother to 12 children, and her home in Sutton Coldfield was a hub of hospitality, known for its garden parties, home-cooked meals, and walls lined with decades of photographs,&#8221; the spokesperson continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Pauline will be remembered as a trailblazer, a mentor, and a kind-hearted physician who gave her all to the people and causes she believed in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Her intelligence and warmth earned her early praise as &#8216;clever, pretty and kind&#8217; \u2013 a description that would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-341998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}