John Spencer Jones

Guy's Hospital medical students who went to Belsen. Pictured from left to right: D. Davies, D. Strange, J. S. Jones, D. Rahilly, D. Westbury, M. E. Davys, D. S. Hurwood, D. H. Forsdick, J. V. Kilby, J. E Mandel, J. L. Hayward and J. A. Turner.

John Spencer Jones (1924 – 11 March 2007) was a British chest physician. In 1945, while studying medicine at Guy's Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. Here, he developed tuberculosis. He later authored a number of articles in medical journals including "Telling the right patient" in the British Medical Journal (1981), where he reported that 50% of people with terminal disease "want to know that this is so".

Selected publications

• "Telling the right patient". British Medical Journal, Vol. 283, No. 6286 (25 July 1981), pp. 291–292. PMID 6788299 doi:10.1136/bmj.283.6286.291