Neville Davis: GP who pushed for clinical forensic medicine as a separate medical specialty

bmj;379/nov01_5/o2611/FAF1faWhen Neville Davis wanted to study law in 1939, his headmaster advised: “You may have to leave the UK, like other Jews have had to leave Europe. An English law degree is not going to be of much use abroad.” Conversely, a medical qualification, he suggested, would be useful anywhere.Medicolegal practiceYoung Neville opted for medicine, but his lifelong interest in the dark side of law shaped a remarkable medical career. He became, reportedly, England’s oldest working doctor at the age of 95, in 2020. A forensic medical examiner, he wrote medicolegal reports and gave oral evidence to the criminal courts from his home in Hove, Sussex, through secure video links.In the foreword to Davis’s autobiography, Love Will Find a Way, his old friend and colleague, Michael Powers KC, said, “The principal mark he has made in medicine is the establishment of clinical forensic medicine as a separate medical specialty with…
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