About the Author

Having graduated from Birmingham Medical School Dr Tom Smith spent two years in hospital house positions before entering general practice, first in Birmingham and then South Ayrshire. He then became medical adviser and later medical director of a major pharmaceutical company where he organised and helped to publish clinical trials of new drugs and took the Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Dr Smith has been a full time writer since 1977 with many popular medical books to his credit (including Diabetes, High Cholesterol & Thyroid Problems for Wellhouse) together with weekly medical columns in several regional newspapers. He also finds time to practice as a locum for the family doctors in his home area of Girvan, Ayrshire, South West Scotland. Tom is married with two children.