When my mother developed problems in the early 1960s after giving birth, Dr. Lapin had appeared effortlessly wise and seemed to transcend the boundaries of religion, politics, and division I saw elsewhere. He had spent time, I was told, as a doctor in the British army, a very unusual occurrence then in Ireland. Lapin, whom I remembered from childhood as being tall, silver-haired, and distinguished, often wearing a bow tie. Our general practitioner at the time was Dr. Neligan, the surgeon called in, advised my mother on the importance of an operation.
In 1974, when he was in hospital for colitis, a routine chest X-ray revealed a shadow on his lung.
He had a number of physical disorders, including ulcerative colitis, ironically one of the few conditions for which smoking is beneficial.
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