Lindsay F Haas
1941 - 2011
BMedSc, MB ChB, FRACP
Lindsay Haas died in 2011. He was a distinguished Wellington Hospital Neurologist (1974 - 2011), and was Head of Neurology from 1988 - 2009.
In the late 1980s Lindsay developed an interest in the medical aspects of philately. He presented a paper on the subject to the annual scientific meeting of the RACP in 1989, entitled 'Doctors that have been licked'.
There followed a remarkable series of publications in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. From 1991 to 2005, no less than 146 articles by Lindsay appeared in that journal, each one giving a mini-biography of a medical personality appearing on a postage stamp. For the most part, these stories have a neurological component.
The unpublished neurological stamp above has never been licked! (Self-adhesive!)