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Cardiologist. Formerly, British Heart Foundation Research Fellow, St. George's Hospital, London. Lecturer in Cardiology, Charing Cross Hospital, London.Chef de Clinique, Cardiologist, Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam.Former Director: Cardiac Centre. Loughton. Essex, UK.Dr. David H. Dighton qualified at the London Hospital Medical College in 1966 with MB and BS (London) degrees. In 1970, after a year or so in NHS general practice, he became a British Heart Foundation Fellow in Cardiology at St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, London, working with cardiologists Dr. Aubrey Leatham and Dr. Alan Harris. In 1973, he became a MRCP(UK), and later a Lecturer (London University) in Medicine and Cardiology at Charing Cross Hospital, London. In 1980, as Chef de Clinique (Assistant Professor) at the Vrije University Hospital, Amsterdam, he helped to introduce transvenous pacing, and collaborated in ongoing coronary artery research with Dr. Pim de Feyter and others. After returning to the UK in 1982, he worked both in his own private medical and cardiac practice in Loughton, Essex (The Loughton Clinic, established in 1973), undertaking invasive cardiac investigations at the Wellington Hospital, London. In 2000, he started a private cardiac diagnostic centre, specialising in the early detection and prevention of coronary artery disease (The Cardiac Centre, Loughton). This closed, once the Public Services Authority directed the GMC to withdraw his licence to practice in the UK (the political reasons are detailed in his book, 'The NHS. Our Sick Sacred Cow.' 2023). As an independent private cardiologist and general physician, he disagreed with UK medical bureaucracy and who they thought most qualified to devise, regulate and supervise medical practice; opinions he based on having been a medical student, general physician and cardiologist for sixty years without ever having one complaint from any patient. Between 2003 and 2006, he undertook food research and wrote two books on food and the heart. Between 2023 and 2025, he published ten books on medical and cardiac subjects. A recent technical book (2025), explores the possible neurophysiological bases for tiredness, fatigue and exhaustion and the relationship to heart disease. Another recent medical book (his 11th) explains tiredness and its cure to a general audience (Tired All the Time, 2025). His latest book, 'Always Tired? 2026, explains tiredness and its relationship to life, illness and mortality, in the simplest of ways. He continues to publish books on cardiac topics, to write haiku (his most recent - his twelfth book - 'A Life: Contemplated in Haiku, Poems and Senryu, 2025) and to research cardiac prevention. This is his fourteenth book (see the list of other books by the author).His interest in the frontier that lies between art and science in medical practice, led to his book, The Art and Science of Medical Practice. It details not only what he was taught by many experienced, world-class physicians and surgeons, but what he learned from practising both the art and science of medicine in teaching hospitals and in private practice. He has other interests. He is a poor linguist but loves learning languages and communicating in those other than his mother tongue. He draws and paints in oils on canvas. For his own amusement he plays the guitar and piano. He likes to compose and play simple melodies, one of which introduces his YouTube videos for patients on understanding heart problems (Dr. Dighton Interviews). Another he played live for a friend on Facebook. For further information: www.daviddighton.com email: david@daviddighton.com
