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Hilary Jones, M.D.

GP, Medical Broadcaster and Author

Dr. Hilary Jones qualified from the Royal Free Hospital medical school in 1976 spending two years in postgraduate posts at that hospital in general medicine and surgery, oncology, intensive care and accident and emergency. Subsequently, he has worked in a variety of specialities including obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmology, health screening and aesthetics.

In 1979 he was the single-handed Doctor on Tristan da Cunha, a British dependency in the South Atlantic and the most isolated inhabited island in the world. Later he was a trouble-shooting medical practitioner in the Shetland Islands working for both the oil industry and serving the local community in emergencies.

He became a principal in General Practice and a GP educational trainer in the early 1980's and joined the most successful breakfast TV station in the world at that time, TVAM at Camden Lock. He also became and still remains, a regular columnist for Rupert Murdoch’s Sun Newspaper’s Fabulous Magazine and he is a guest presenter on BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright show – the most listened to radio show in Europe. He contributes to a number of newspapers and magazines and is the author of several books and novels, the latest being A Day In Your Life published by Bantam Press.