Professor martin gore biography of barack

Martin Eric Gore was born in 1951, one of the two sons of Bernard Gore and his wife, Alexandra, a couple of Polish immigrants who had fled their country after the Nazi invasion in 1939.

They had anglicised the family name, which had been Gurewicz.

Martin grew up in southwest London, not far from the Marsden, which would come to dominate his working life. He was educated at Summer Fields School in Oxford and Bradfield College.

He studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London and, after graduating in 1974, became a single-handed GP in Deptford, southeast London.

It was here that he came to realise that medicine, as he would put it later, is only partly about treating the illness. Treating the patient as an individual, too, is vital, because what seems like the same disease can have different effects — and requires different treatments — in two patients.

Gore left general practice in 1978 to work a