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British medical journalist, author (born )

James Le Fanu (born ) is a British retired general practitioner, journalist and author, best known for his weekly columns in the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. He is married to publisher Juliet Annan.

Life

Le Fanu was educated at Ampleforth College and graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, and the Royal London Hospital in , and worked as a junior doctor at the Renal Transplant Unit and Cardiology Department of the Royal Free Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital in London.

For 20 years he combined working as a general practitioner with writing medical columns for the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph as well as contributing reviews and articles to The Times, The Spectator, The British Medical Journal and Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.^[1] His books include The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine (), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in , Why Us?: How science rediscovered t Dr James Le Fanu: Expert health advice - The Telegraph FECE