BMJ  2008;336:1511 (28 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.a325

Obituaries

Belinda Mary Brewer

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After gaining prizes as a medical student, Belinda Mary Brewer ("Binks") embarked on her career at full throttle. She found her home by the sea in Chichester and quickly rose through the general medical ranks at St Richard’s. Although she thrived on clinical medicine and had an insatiable thirst for learning, she struggled with work pressures and settled on general practice. Binks was later treated for bipolar disorder and in character fought to reduce the stigma of mental illness among doctors. She was key to the establishment of the Doctors’ Support Network (DSN) and published on this subject. Binks loved all sports and played hockey and squash to a high level. She lived life to the full until she finally lost the battle with her illness.

Dilys Lai

General practitioner Chichester (b 1968; q Charing Cross, London, 1992; MRCP, DFFP, MRCGP), d 6 November 2007.


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