[1][2] After education at Wellingborough School, A. George Whitfield studied medicine at the University of Birmingham, graduating there MB ChB (Birm.)
[1] George Whitfield’s chief research interests were in lung volume, radiation damage to thoracic tissues and cardiomyopathy ...
During the last decade of his life he wrote, with Sir Cyril Clarke, reports on clinical epidemiology in internal medicine.
[2] George Whitfield was typical of all that is best in general physicians, and he could sum up people admirably, as evidenced by the frequency with which he was asked to write obituaries for colleagues.
His contribution dealt with writing an obituary for a colleague: ‘That,’ he said to a friend, with a smile, ‘will give you something to chuckle about after I’ve gone.’[1]In 1937 in Sutton Coldfield he married Barbara Franks.