Former emergency physician (b Hampshire 1943; q Edinburgh 1967; DObst RCOG), d 14 March 2003.
David entered general practice in Ludlow in 1973. He served as surgeon lieutenant commander with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve between 1965 and 1978. In 1983 David became medical officer with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, but his seafaring days ended when he developed polyarteritis nodosa, subsequently undergoing bilateral nephrectomies. After a successful renal transplant in 1987 David returned to work, this time in accident and emergency departments in Hereford, Bromsgrove, Stockport, and Wolverhampton. He leaves a wife, two children, two stepchildren, and one grandson.
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