Dr Laurence Leaver 2015-02-26 Person 5 5 0

I have known Dr Leaver probably getting on for twenty years, both as a patient of his, and as a fellow of one of the Oxford colleges that he and his partners look after. His combination of sharp observation and clued-up-ness without jumping to the first readily-to-hand conclusion, his gentle humour, his unhurriedness and patience, his considerateness and openness with his patients -- these are some of the things that spring immediately to mind and make one feel extraordinarily fortunate to be in his care. FRCP + FRCGP is already promising as a combination -- with Laurence it IS experience and expertise made flesh / the utterly humane appliance of science. He's excellent with young people too, supportive and prepared to stick up for them. It's good news for the next generation of GPs that he's involved in their development as well. It's worth adding, I think, that he's a member of a historically first-class practice team, the tone of which was set by Michael Kenworthy-Browne, and is now represented, along with Laurence, by the splendid Judy Bogdanor, together with Mark O'Shea.