Former consultant physician and psychotherapist Glasgow (b Argyll 1916; q Glasgow 1939; VRD, FRCP Glas, FRCP), d 6 November 2003.
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In 1941 Alasdair Cameron Macdonald joined the Royal Marines and served on escort vessels in the north Atlantic. He was the first doctor in the Royal Navy to qualify as a watch-keeping officer. Thereafter he was engaged in research at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine, developing ejector seats and related safety equipment. He returned to Glasgow after the war and became a consultant physician in 1953. He was interested in the emotional aspects of physical disorders, and in 1992 he published Could It Be Stress?: Reflections on Psychosomatic Disorders. He leaves a wife; three children; and seven grandchildren.
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