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Professor Peter Blagrave probably the best osteopathic teacher in the world/
By Roger Kingston of Buderim Osteopath
Professor Peter Blagrave DO - Osteopath Professor Blagrave is probably one of the UK’s greatest living osteopaths. He is the son of the late Keith Blagrave who was an exceptional osteopathic technique, practitioner and expert in amongst many things the treatment of feet. Peter did his national service in the Royal Air Force, later became a watch maker ,before the call to osteopathy took hold and he studied at the British School of Osteopathy before transferring to the newly founded European School of Osteopathy which at the time was “housed” in the British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy in Hampstead. Peter was seen as someone of huge ability and was almost immediately called upon to teach which he did until his recent “re-retirement”, even now he is in demand over the whole world as a lecturer. During an illustrious career he became a consultant at Guys Hospital in London where he exposed osteopathy to the full glare of medical scrutiny and again all those who experienced his hands were impressed. After the retirement of its founder, Thomas Dummer, the European School of Osteopathy appointed Peter as its principle. Peter, being a gentleman of the old school with integrity, manners, professionalism, deportment, presentation, was the outstanding candidate. He took over and immediately went to work overhauling the school and in particular improving the professional standards of the students. Peter was a stickler for practitioner presentation, punctuality and efficacy and he did this because he knew as a successful osteopath what was required in practice. He unfortunately suffered a heart attack and stood down and only returned after surgery and took over as clinic director. Before long he was back to teaching and this is when I first came across him. Peters’s lectures were superb and unforgettable. He was always 5 minits early and would call the register on the second of the hour, if you weren’t there you were absent and the only acceptable reasons were death, diahorrea and British Rail. He was an amazing teacher and his lectures were serious yet humerous and we learnt from him. He did not tolerate fools and especially in the teaching staff. Peter was commonsense and integrity, the patient was the priority and his students were to look the part and be the best option that patient had in helping them. How I have thanked him thousands of times for instilling this in me. In the college clinic nothing phased him, he had seen it all before, and there was no one who could compare with his experience and ability to make a therapeutic input in getting the patient better. The students adored Peter, he was the school master they could all relate too, a father figure, the guru, and simply the best damn osteopath they had come across. The invitations for post graduate lectures increased each year with the Russians and Italians in particular. Yet despite all this it was Peter’s kindness that make me remember him. I had played rugby twice one weekend and had woken up on the Monday in agony and barely able to move. I somehow got my self to the clinic and Peter took one look at me and told me to go to treatment room 1. He then treated me and got me walking and moving with instructions to see him 2 days later. He sought me out the next day to see how I was and I was considerably better - he response was that this was the best teaching experience I would ever encounter and he was right.
As a student he insisted that we called him Mr Blagrave or Sir but on the day we graduated we would be his equal and could call him Peter. After I graduated he was appointed Professor but despite this grandiose title we all just knew him as an honest man, a brilliant teacher, a wonderful osteopath and a true friend. How I hope to be remembered one day with the affection this man holds amongst his colleagues. |
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