About David Berger

Medically

I am a rural GP in Somerset with a background

in general medicine and an interest in out of

hours care. I am also one of the three founders

and medical director of a company offering

evidence-based screening in primary care.

Since 2003, I have been running a series of highly successful triage courses for Devon Doctors, analysing genuine recorded calls. This course is identical to the Telephone Triage Workshop. I also devised and ran a series of popular GP entrepreneur evenings across the South of England, from which The One Day MBA course is derived.

During 2008 / 2009, I have been developing a stunning new GP property, featured here in the Journal of the RIBA. How to Develop a GP Property was born from the hard knocks of this experience.

In April 2009, I was appointed a non-executive director of the BMJ Publishing Group.

Non-medically

I started a successful company called the Motley Fool UK back at the dawn of the Internet in 1997. The Motley Fool's purpose was to educate, amuse and enrich by demystifying finance and investment. Highlights of those years included:

 

authoring a series of best-selling books; an appearance on the Today programme with John Humphreys in a jester cap (me, not him); and...a hands-on rollercoaster course in running your own rapidly expanding business, combined with a grandstand view of the first Internet boom and bust.

When I am not doctoring or devising new businesses to keep me awake at night, I like to spend time with my wife, who is also a GP, and three small boys. I also like to scare myself witless from time to time at the controls of a light aircraft.