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Thurstan Brewin died earlier this year after a very full life. He was an enthusiastic ambassador of good medicine and patient care; this is how we came into contact with him. As a member of FACT‘s International Editorial Board, he was held in the highest regard as an outspoken and informed critic of medicine CAM. All who knew him appreciated that it was not really CAM that he criticised but any form of misguided medicine that, in his view, was disappointing the hopes of patients, in particular cancer victims.
Dr Brewin had so many credits to his life that we cannot even begin to list them. For FACThe was a shining light among the opponents of CAM. His comments were as sharp and biting as they were justified, and to the point. We will all miss him greatly.
Dr Brewin expressed a wish that, if anyone wanted to make a donation in his memory, they should make it to Marie Curie Cancer Care, where he worked as a Medical Director for some years.
