There are six commemorative plaques on the walls of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary rotunda. The hospital opened in 1936 and they must have been put up after 1937, when Ashley Mackintosh died. They have identical styles but the individuals chosen to be commemorated at the entrance to the hospital are a disparate group. They represent a wide time period of over a century, and a variety of specialties. Some of those depicted are distinguished, others less so. One is remembered for repeating the same lectures every year, another for being sacked for drunkenness. Why this choice of who to commemorate was made, and by whom, is a puzzle.
