{{Short description|Pioneering paediatrician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Beryl Corner OBE.jpg|thumb|right|Beryl Corner]] '''Beryl Dorothy Corner''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (1910–2007) was a medical doctor and committed Christian<ref>See Electoral Rolls of the Parish of Christ Church Clifton, for 1980-2007</ref> who specialised in the [[paediatrics|care and treatment of children]] and pioneered [[neonatology]] – care of the [[newborn]].
She excelled as a medical student at the [[London School of Medicine for Women]] but then had trouble finding a post at institutions like [[Great Ormond Street Hospital]] because she was a woman. She established a career at the [[Bristol Royal Hospital for Children]] and, for several years, she was the only paediatrician in [[South West England]]. She was admitted to the [[British Paediatric Association]] in 1945.<ref name=T/> Corner established a unit to care for newborn babies. With a budget of £100 she was able to halve mortality rates.<ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/113844.stm Health: Before the revolution], 16 June 1998, BBC, Retrieved 14 April 2017</ref> In 1948 she was the consultant paediatrician who oversaw the first caesarian birth of four quads born at Bristol.<ref>[http://goodquads.co.uk/Intropage1.htm The Good Story], Retrieved 14 April 2017</ref>
Corner was awarded the [[Order of the British Empire]] shortly before she died in 2007, aged 96.<ref name=T/>
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