John Spencer Jones (1924 – 11 March 2007) was a British chest physician. In 1945, while studying medicine at

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, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. Here, he developed

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in ...

. He later authored a number of articles in medical journals including "Telling the right patient" in the ''

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'' (1981), where he reported that 50% of people with terminal disease "want to know that this is so".Chris Jones
"Obituaries: John Spencer Jones"
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'', Vol. 334, Issue 7602, pp. 1063–1063. A. Cartwright
"The role of the general practitioner in helping the elderly widowed"
'' Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners'', Vol. 32, Issue 237 (April 1982), pp. 215–227. O'Donnell, Michael
"One Man's Burden"
''British Medical Journal'', Vol. 293, 22 November 1986

Selected publications

"Telling the right patient"
''British Medical Journal'', Vol. 283, No. 6286 (25 July 1981), pp. 291–292.

References

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