[3] He became house physician to the medical unit at University College Hospital and graduated MB BS (Lond.)
During WWII Gooddy was first a regimental medical officer and was then stationed until 1945 at St Hugh's Military Hospital for head injuries.
Later he was put in charge of the medical division of the British Military Hospital, Berlin.
[2] In 1948 Gooddy was appointed physician to the neurological department of University College Hospital and assistant physician to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London.
[4] Gooddy delivered in 1976 the Bradshaw Lecture on Time and the nervous system: the neuron as an escapement.