Jeremy John Stuart Gibson

bmj;391/oct07_2/r2080/FAF1faJeremy was born a wartime London evacuee in Arundel, West Sussex. After Tonbridge School he studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital, London.After graduating he did house jobs at the Middlesex and Ipswich Hospital, and married Susan, a staff nurse at the Middlesex, in 1967. He initially pursued a career in surgery, returning to Cambridge to demonstrate anatomy, before changing to the family tradition of general practice: both his mother and aunt were GPs. His first practice was in Chelmsford, he then worked in Upper Hutt, New Zealand, in 1972, before moving to Honiton, Devon, to become a GP partner.He embraced a rural GP career and the cradle to grave care of patients and their families. This included home births and minor surgery at the cottage hospital. One particularly snowy winter he did his rounds on skis. He developed a pioneering mobile endoscopy service which led to…