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Obituaries

John Burslem (q Manchester 1968; d 11 November 2006) was a missionary with Interserve.

Philip Clements (q King's College Hospital 1943; d Christmas 2005) worked in public health in Wiltshire.

Wesley Finegan (q Belfast 1978; d 20 January 2007) was a consultant in palliative medicine in Dundee and was diagnosed with cancer in 1994. CMF stocks his books Trust Me – I'm a Cancer Patient (2004) and Being a Cancer Patient's Carer (2005).

Sidney Hamilton (q Cambridge and The London Hospital 1937, d 10 July 2006) was a GP in south London who cared for his wife Anne, a fellow GP, for 25 years after she was paralysed by polio in 1953.

George Hudson (q Manchester 1949; d 26 October 2006) was Emeritus Professor of Haematology at the University of Sheffield and had been regional postgraduate dean.

Stephen Moore (q Oxford 1979; d weekend 5/6 August 2006) was a GP in Essex.

Gordon Oakshott (q Leeds 1952; d 7 December 2006) became a GP and later a clinical research fellow at the medical physics and bioengineering research unit at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.

Murray Philip (q Edinburgh 1945; d March 2006). Murray went to a leprosy colony in Nigeria in 1950. In 1968 he became a GP principal in Catrine, Mauchline. 'He always had the interests of his patients at heart.'

Robina Sealey (q Birmingham 1959; d 22 January 2007) specialised in paediatrics and had been RMO at The Children's Hospital, Birmingham.

Michael Varnam (q The London Hospital 1967; d 29 April 2006) was an innovative academic GP, latterly in inner city Nottingham. He died of cancer having just delivered a few hours earlier, with the help of his son, the 2006 Rendle Short Lecture.

Micah Challenge - blow the whistle

With this mailing you should have received a postcard/flyer from Micah Challenge UK, a coalition CMF belongs to. It invites prayer and offers a lobbying option about Britain fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals.