Gavin Francis
Scottish doctor and writer
Gavin Francis is a Scottish doctor and writer whose books explore travel, medicine and culture. He wrote Adventures in Human Being.
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Born 1975
About Gavin Francis
Gavin Francis was born in 1975 and raised in Fife, Scotland. He qualified in medicine at Edinburgh in 1999, then spent ten years traveling and visited all seven continents. His medical work has included paediatrics, surgery, emergency medicine and neurosurgery training, as well as time as an expedition medic in the Arctic and Antarctic. He lives in Edinburgh and works there as a general practitioner. He has written eleven books of non-fiction, among them Adventures in Human Being, Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence and Empire Antarctica. In 2013 Empire Antarctica took the Scottish Book of the Year prize.