Our Patron, Professor Richard Knight
Professor Richard Knight is a leader in his field. Scroll down for his biography as well as other titbits, including suggested reading and extracts from his GradMed lecture later on this year.
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Professor Richard Knight, BA, BM, BCh, FRCP(E), is an internationally acclaimed doctor highly respected in the field of neurology.
He is Professor of Clinical Neurology, University of Edinburgh, Honorary Consultant Clinical Neurologist, Lothian University Teaching Hospitals. Deputy Director UK National CJD Surveillance Unit.
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Professor Richard Knight says “Doctors should have a broad appreciation of the variety of human experience and reading is one way of achieving this. In addition, any reasonable education should include some familiarity with the works of major artists including writers. A Country Doctor's Notebook is relevant reading not only for the above two reasons, but also because it is a very personal, and at times moving, account of being a doctor. While it deals with past medical practice, and in a country remote from the UK, it contains descriptions of universal and contemporary relevance.”