Peter Campion

In 1968, when Peter Campion was a medical student at Oxford, his first paper appeared in Nature. Over the subsequent 50 years his clinical academic outputs were wide ranging, covering general practice, communication skills, chronic fatigue, dementia, and community pharmacy.

While a lecturer at Dundee, he researched consultation issues, first studying aspects of illness behaviour in mothers with young children, and later completing a sociology PhD at Liverpool on conversation analysis. As foundation chair in general practice at the University of Hull, …