Guy Dain

{{Short description|British physician (1870–1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Sir | name = Guy Dain | honorific_suffix = | image = Guy Dain in 1949.jpg | caption = Dain in 1949 | birth_name = Harry Guy Dain | birth_date = {{Birth date|1870|11|5|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|2|26|1870|11|5|df=y}} | death_place = | education = Mason College <br /> University of London | occupation = Physician | years_active = | known_for = Chairman of the British Medical Association (1943 to 1949) | notable_works = }} thumb|right|Dain's coat of arms

'''Sir Harry Guy Dain''' FRCS (5 November 1870 – 26 February 1966) was a British physician.<ref name="Ann R Coll Surg Engl">{{cite journal | pmid=5329162 | volume=38 | title=Sir Guy Dain, F.R.C.S., Hon. M.D., Hon.L.L.D. (1870–1966) | year=1966 | journal=Ann R Coll Surg Engl | issue=6 | pages=391–392 | pmc = 2312112 }}</ref>

Between 1887 and 1894 Dain studied science and medicine at Mason College (a predecessor college of the University of Birmingham). He graduated with a University of London external MB degree in medicine in 1894.<ref name="Ann R Coll Surg Engl"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf |title=General Register part 3 |website=University of London |access-date=20 December 2014 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023058/http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/general_register_part_3.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Dain was Chairman of the British Medical Association from 1943 to 1949 at the time of the creation of the National Health Service.<ref name="Ann R Coll Surg Engl"/> He strongly opposed the creation of the National Health Service and led British Medical Association opposition to it, publicly clashing with Aneurin Bevan, the then Minister of Health.<ref>"K O Morgan ''The People's Peace''"</ref>

Dain was knighted in 1961. Dain was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1945. He received an honorary LLD degree from Aberdeen University in 1939 and an honorary MD degree from Birmingham University in 1944.<ref name="Ann R Coll Surg Engl"/>

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