Geoffrey Mitchell
BMJ 2004; 328 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.328.7450.1264-c (Published 20 May 2004) Cite this as: BMJ 2004;328:1264Data supplement
Geoffrey Mitchell
General practitioner London (b 1932; q Leeds 1955; MRCP London 1965, FRCP Edinburgh 1985), died from an astrocytoma on 18 September 2003.
Geoffrey had a keen interest in aviation and during his student years learnt to fly in the university air squadron. Following house posts in Leeds Geoffrey joined the Royal Air Force. He undertook postgraduate training in renal medicine, ultimately becoming a senior specialist in medicine at RAF Halton and later in Wegberg, West Germany. Geoffrey published papers in the use of haemodialysis for various clinical situations, as well as being a member of the aeromedical evacuation team. In 1966, following the death of a child during surgery for Fallot’s tetralogy, he left the RAF and joined, as a temporary assistant, a private practice at 1 Upper Wimpole Street, in the Harley Street precinct. Geoffrey’s skills as a general physician soon developed his private general practice and he was widely respected as an excellent clinician. The "temporary" job lasted 37 years until his death. For several years Geoffrey was a member of the private practice committee of the BMA and, in addition, a founder member of the Independent Doctors’ Forum, later serving as chairman during an important stage in the organisation’s development. As well as his family, Geoffrey had three loves in his life. These were medicine, wine, and opera, and his knowledge in all three were unequalled. In 1974 his two daughters survived a fire in the family home, but his wife tragically died trying to save a friend. Some years later Geoffrey remarried, and now leaves a wife and a young daughter, as well as two older daughters from his first marriage, all of who mourn him deeply. [Stuart Ungar]
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