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Beck was appointed [[consultant (medicine)|consultant]] neurosurgeon at the Royal Free in 1943, but the next year the ongoing war forced her to move to [[Chase Farm Hospital]] and [[Bristol]] to provide neurosurgical advice to the [[emergency medical service]] for south-west England. She became a consultant neurosurgeon at [[Middlesex Hospital]] in 1947, making her the first female consultant at a London teaching hospital that did not admit women students.<ref name=odnb/> At Middlesex, she was the first woman and the first neurosurgeon on staff,<ref name=neuro/> as well as being the only consultant neurosurgeon in western Europe and North America at the time.<ref name=plarr>{{cite web|url=https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E004897b.htm|title= Beck, Diana Jean Kinloch (1902–1956) |work=Plarr's Lives of the Fellows|publisher=[[Royal College of Surgeons]]|date=22 January 2014|access-date=27 November 2017}}</ref> Beck set up and ran the neurosurgery service at Middlesex, and published important research on the management of [[intracerebral haemorrhage]].<ref name=neuro/>

In 1952 Beck received attention in the press for performing lifesaving surgery on [[A. A. Milne]], the author of ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'', two months after he suffered a [[intracerebral hemorrhage|brain haemorrhage]].<ref name=neuro/> ''[[The Times]]'' praised her "remarkable piece of surgery".<ref name=neuro/> According to his son [[Christopher Robin Milne|Christopher]], after the stroke and surgery he remained "partly paralyzed" with a "distinct change in character", though he survived a further three years.<ref name="Thwaite2013">{{cite book |last1=Thwaite |first1=Ann |title=A.A. Milne : his life |date=2013 |publisher=Bello|location=London |isbn=978-1-4472-5307-5 |page=594 |url=https://archive.org/details/aamilnehislife0000thwa_j0j4/page/594/mode/2up?q=paralysed}}</ref>

==First female neurosurgeon==