Peter McDonald



With his charming bedside manner this surgeon takes his audience through the funnier side of medicine. After all Voltaire said that a physician's purpose is to amuse while Nature effects a cure. Peter has achieves this in no small measure and has had audiences laughing all over Southern England for more than a decade.

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Peter McDonald MBBS MS FRCS – Consultant Surgeon, Writer and Broadcaster. Peter “Pedro” McDonald MBBS MS FRCS “Gemellus” “Dr. Slop” “Mr. SlopFRCS”

Peter McDonald a Consultant Surgeon at Northwick Park & St. Mark’s Hospital since 1991 interested in colorectal cancer and Crohn’s Disease with more than 70 scientific papers published. As a medical journalist – 900 opinion columns in Hospital Doctor, Colorectal Disease, Annals of Royal College Surgeons Bulletin and in The Times, She Magazine and The Geographical Magazine.

The novel “A Trust in Conflict” (1999) by Dr Slop and “The Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations” in 2003 (OUP). “A Ride in Middle England” (2006) – five half hour TV documentary films screening on Sky Channel (Horse and Country) and the USA. Now available from Amazon.

Performances on Radio 4 include “Quote/Unquote” (6); “Inspirations” (4) and “Word of Mouth” (1), Queensland Radio (ABC) (1988) and Sky TV and BBC2.

Dr Peter McDonald, a fiddler (traditional folk), has one wife, twenty animals including horses, dogs, cats, ducks, chickens and four children. He has delivered 130 after dinner speeches to corporate dinners, clubs and medical audiences all over the UK and Europe.

“Jiblets and Tripe!” gives his audience an amusing insight into his life as a surgeon.

Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations   Trust in Conflict

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