- Rebecca Wallersteiner
- London, UK
- wallersteiner{at}hotmail.com
Doctor, writer, and broadcaster Michael Mosley died while holidaying on the Greek island of Symi on 9 June. Mosley was well known for his work in television and radio, as well as for his best selling diet books.
He had a narrow escape from death within a few months of being born in Calcutta, India, in 1957, to Bill Mosley, a banker, and his wife Joan (née Stewart). That year coincided with a new deadly strain of influenza virus known as Asian flu. It killed around two million people and left baby Mosley seriously ill.
He was sent to England at the age of 7 to attend boarding school, with his older brother, John. He read philosophy, politics, and economics at New College, Oxford, and after a short stint in investment banking decided to train in medicine. He was particularly interested in psychiatry.
On his first day at the Royal Free Hospital medical school, now part of UCL Medical School, he met another student, …
