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Malcolm Alexander

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Dr Malcolm Alexander graduated from Edinburgh University in 1980 with the single thought of becoming a General Practitioner in a rural setting and nothing more. Life had other plans and in time he became Clinical Director and then Medical Director for Orkney Health Board, before working as Director of Strategy for the Scottish Executive Remote and Rural Initiative. He finished his career working for 11 years as Associate Medical Director for the Scottish National Telephone Triage service, NHS 24, before finally returning to face to face practice as a locum in his local GP practice on one of the Scottish islands. His medical interests are widespread and include training in homeopathy, medical hypnosis, pre-hospital care as well as his expert ...more

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Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor

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Crossing the line

There is a moment after my nymph enters the water, a split second that is so intense it is addictive. A primal anticipation of the hard knock, the adrenalin-filled pull on the line as a fish strikes. The fish’s killer instinct, automatic, ingrained in the hunted’s psyche, merges with the hunter in me. I strike, too. Tethering the fish to its quarry.

Then we fight, determined and panicked, as the hu