TY - JOUR T1 - AJ Cronin: novelist, GP, and visionary JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 479 LP - 479 DO - 10.3399/bjgp15X686629 VL - 65 IS - 638 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2015/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/65/638/479.abstract N2 - AJ Cronin© National Portrait Gallery, LondonBy what appears to be an amazing coincidence, AJ Cronin, known mostly nowadays for the Dr Finlay’s Casebook programmes, worked as a GP in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, in the early 1920s, at the same time as Aneurin Bevan, who was born there. It is almost inconceivable that they didn’t meet, although there is no evidence that they did. Bevan worked for the Tredegar Workmens’ Medical Aid Society in this traditional coal mining community and Cronin was particularly interested in the effects of coal dust exposure on miners’ lungs. Bevan was on his way to becoming the architect … ER -