Michael Mosley: doctor, writer, and broadcaster

bmj;385/jun12_13/q1299/FAF1faCredit: BBCDoctor, writer, and broadcaster Michael Mosley died while holidaying on the Greek island of Symi on 9 June. Mosley was well known for his work in television and radio, as well as for his best selling diet books.He had a narrow escape from death within a few months of being born in Calcutta, India, in 1957, to Bill Mosley, a banker, and his wife Joan (née Stewart). That year coincided with a new deadly strain of influenza virus known as Asian flu. It killed around two million people and left baby Mosley seriously ill.He was sent to England at the age of 7 to attend boarding school, with his older brother, John. He read philosophy, politics, and economics at New College, Oxford, and after a short stint in investment banking decided to train in medicine. He was particularly interested in psychiatry.On his first day at the Royal Free Hospital…
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