Dr. Berger is our flying doctor

Dr. David Berger BSc MBBS MRCP works three days a week. David and his wife, Dr. Carol Bird, have been in Dulverton since October 2004.

He grew up in Switzerland and trained at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, one of the colleges of London University. Here, he took a Bachelor of Science in 1988 with a special interest in molecular developmental biology and qualified with distinction and a fistful of prizes in 1991. He has always had a strong interest in general internal medicine, which he developed in a number of jobs in London, including at the Royal Marsden Hospital in cancer medicine and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in HIV medicine at the height of the epidemic. He passed the exams to become a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1995, but short spells as a district medical officer in the Solomon Islands and then as a resident in internal medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva heralded a change of direction and he returned to the UK in 1996 to start GP training in Barnstaple, which he completed several years later.

While training as a GP, he took a while off to found the Motley Fool UK, now one of the most successful UK Internet media businesses. He is also a director of New Medical, a successful medical screening business.

He has been mad about flying since before anyone can remember and likes to take his boys flying whenever he can. Carol has mixed feelings about this, but puts up with reasonably good grace and recently she even took to the air herself, although only the promise of a slap-up feed at the other end got her to actually climb into the contraption.

David and Carol 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, seen in the picture modelling her aviation headset.