Former professor of primary medical care Southampton University (b Aberdeen 1922; q Aberdeen 1951; MA, MD, FRCGP), died from lung cancer on 22 June 2003.
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After active service in north Africa, Italy, and Palestine, John Forbes returned to Aberdeen in 1946, determined to read medicine. He was a general practitioner for 16 years in Bicester, researching and writing his MD in his spare time. In 1969 John was appointed senior lecturer at the newly forming Southampton Medical School—which took its first students in 1971—becoming professor of primary medical care in 1972. Determined to produce doctors who understood the social context of illness, he developed new ways of teaching medicine. One of these was the early medical contact scheme, in which general practitioners took first year students into patients' homes. He leaves a wife, June; four children; and five grandchildren.
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