Consultant pathologist Debra Milne tells Helen Jones about her love of jazz—from performing in a band to helping to run a local music venue “I’ve always loved music but particularly jazz and the great singers,” says Debra Milne, a consultant pathologist at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. “One of my earliest memories of somebody singing what I recognised to be jazz is as a teenager listening to a Nat King Cole album with a friend.