1. John Plaistowe Horder was an English physician who worked as a general practitioner.
29 Facts About John Horder
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John Horder led community based health services in the National Health Service.
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John Horder was described as the "father of modern general practice" and as "the Pope of Portuguese general practice".
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John Horder was born on 9 December 1919, to Gerald Morley Horder, a quantity surveyor, and his wife Emma.
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John Horder was a cousin of the eminent royal physician Lord Horder.
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John Horder originally wanted to be a professional musician in which aim he was influenced and inspired by his grandfather who was a congregational minister.
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John Horder recalled sitting next to the church organist at the age of 10 and was once given the keys to St Mary's Church in Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, so that he could rehearse there, as well as frequently playing at Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire.
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John Horder was interested in literature, philosophy and medicine, and became an accomplished pianist and proficient in watercolour painting.
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John Horder changed his mind about his ambitions at various times.
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John Horder subsequently switched to medicine as a result of the prospect of war in the 1930s and the desire to study human nature.
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John Horder saw sarcasm, grumbling, and disturbing worries about money amongst his colleagues.
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John Horder was an advocate of generalism and in 1952, used the example of James Mackenzie, founder of the London Hospital's cardiac department and generalist to argue his point, asserting the importance of protecting generalists in an age of mounting specialism.
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John Horder was hopeful that heroes of general practice would one day exist, as they did for other specialities.
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John Horder was at one time president of the section for general practice at the Royal Society of Medicine.
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John Horder was elected president of the Royal College of General Practitioners from 1979 to 1982.
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On taking up the role of RCGP president, John Horder discovered that for young GPs, the college had uncertain significance and questionable meaning, with time constraints being a key issue.
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John Horder chaired the review of general practice that produced The Future General Practitioner: Learning and Teaching.
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John Horder went on to found the Centre for the Advancement of Inter-professional Education in 1987.
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John Horder advised the Department of Health and Social Security on matters relating to general practice, a position he held for 6 years.
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John Horder was the first British general practitioner to be selected as a consultant to the World Health Organization.
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John Horder had a number of major episodes, the first occurring during the Second World War when he was dismissed from duties and admitted to hospital.
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John Horder was originally a Jungian and sceptical of chemically altering the mind but later became an advocate for anti-depressants, particularly monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
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John Horder once described the pain of depression as more overwhelming than the pain of coronary thrombosis.
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John Horder was involved in the treatment of Sylvia Plath's depression in the last 3 months of her life.
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John Horder was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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John Horder instituted an annual John Horder Award for an "outstanding contribution by a member of the College staff".
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John Horder married Elizabeth June Wilson in 1940, the daughter of Dorothy Every Brown and Dr Maurice Wilson who died when Elizabeth was 5 and was the brother of writer and relief worker Francesca Wilson.
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An annual John Horder Award is presented by the Royal Society of Medicine.
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John Horder's autobiography was published in a series of instalments in the London Journal of Primary Care:.