Dame Beulah Bewley obituary

Physician who played a key role in improving the place of female doctors in Britain’s medical establishmentBeulah Bewley, who has died aged 88, reached the top of the medical profession and cleared a path for other female doctors to follow. As treasurer of the General Medical Council (1992-99), she encouraged the organisation to take on more women – and lobbied council members of royal medical colleges to increase their previously insignificant female intake.Yet Bewley’s career