Following a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge[5] he went to St Thomas' Hospital to continue his clinical studies and qualified in 1939.
After a spell at the Royal Army Medical Corps depot at Church Crookham as a major[5] he found himself in unfulfilling, general duties.
[6] At the end of the war he returned to St Thomas' Hospital where he achieved his MRCP in 1946[5] and was appointed registrar to Owen de Wesselow’s medical unit.
[6] The Institute of Dermatology was developing at St John's Hospital and Wells was appointed as a senior lecturer in 1954.
This arrangement seemed to suit Wells; he was a shy man able to find comfort working in the relative calmness of his laboratory.
[6] In 1961 he gave the Parkes Weber lecture at the College of Physicians, "Skin disorders Associated with Malabsorption", based on work he had done at St Thomas' Hospital with gastroenterologists and later published in the British Medical Journal.
The couple lived in Hereford Square in South Kensington, London, and on his retirement they moved to Suffolk.