Dr Carol Bird
Dr. Bird is our vegetable doctor
Dr. Carol Bird BSc MBBS DCH works three days a week.
She trained at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, one of the colleges of London University, where she took a Bachelor of Science in 1988 with a special interest in clinical neurosciences. She trained in a broad variety of jobs after qualifying and she and her husband, Dr. David Berger, spent a short while staffing a district hospital in the Solomon Islands, where she had a number of highly eventful canoe tours of the outlying islands. They returned to the UK in 1996 and she completed her GP training in Barnstaple.
Since qualifying as a GP, she has held a variety of positions in North Devon, gaining a taste for the rural GP’s lot as an assistant in Black Torrington and Shebbear for a number of years. She holds the Diploma of Child Health of the Royal College of Physicians.
Carol anbd David have been in Dulverton since October 2004. When not working or looking after her boys, Dr. Bird likes to spend time in her vegetable garden and grows a pretty mean pumpkin. Just don’t get her started on raised beds.
They have three small boys who spent two years at All Saints in Dulverton. They all live near South Molton with Lizzie the Jack Russell terrier.