Editing Roger Bannister (section)

== Medical career ==
After retiring from athletics in 1954, Bannister spent the next forty years practising medicine in the field of [[neurology]]. In March 1957, he joined the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] at Crookham, where he started his two years of [[National Service Act 1948|National Service]] with the rank of [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]].<ref name="APArchive">{{cite web |title=Roger Bannister Joins Up |url=http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/653e842ee6484d62848e6564e29896c2 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=4 March 2018}}</ref>

His major contribution to academic medicine was in the field of [[Autonomic nervous system|autonomic]] failure, an area of neurology concerning illnesses characterised by the loss of certain automatic responses of the nervous system (for example, elevated heart rate when standing up). He ultimately published more than eighty papers, mostly concerned with the [[autonomic nervous system]], [[cardiovascular physiology]], and [[multiple system atrophy]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=MacAuley|first=Domhnall|date=1 December 2005|title=Profile: Roger Bannister|journal=[[The Lancet]]|volume=366|issue=S14–S15|pages=S14–S15|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67827-0|pmid=16360731|s2cid=34984270|issn=0140-6736|doi-access=free}}</ref> He edited ''Autonomic Failure: A Textbook of Clinical Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System'' with C.J. Mathias, a colleague at [[St Mary's Hospital, London|St Mary's]], as well as five editions of ''Brain and Bannister's Clinical Neurology.''<ref name=":3"/>

Bannister always said he was more proud of his contribution to medicine than his running career.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-roger-bannister-obituary-four-minute-mile-athletics-academic-neurology-nervous-system-a8239301.html|title=Sir Roger Bannister, obituary: Middle-distance runner who achieved the first four-minute mile|date=4 March 2018|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|access-date=11 March 2018}}</ref> In 2014, Bannister said in an interview: "I'd rather be remembered for my work in neurology than my running. If you offered me the chance to make a great breakthrough in the study of the autonomic nerve system, I'd take that over the four minute mile right away. I worked in medicine for sixty years. I ran for about eight."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bigissue.com/interviews/roger-bannister-id-rather-remembered-neurology-running/|title=Roger Bannister: "I'd rather be remembered for neurology than running" |date=5 March 2018|newspaper=[[The Big Issue]]|access-date=11 March 2018}}</ref>