TY - JOUR T1 - Professor Hamish Barber MD FRCGP FRCP(Glas) FHKCGP JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 928 LP - 929 VL - 57 IS - 544 AU - Graham Watt AU - John Howie Y1 - 2007/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/544/928.abstract N2 - Hamish Barber, the first professor of general practice at the University of Glasgow, died aged 74 on 26 August 2007, after a long illness. He was born in Dunfermline, and christened James Hill Barber after his maternal grandfather, a GP in Renfrew. He qualified in medicine at Edinburgh University in 1957. After 5 years in the RAF, he obtained an assistant post in general practice in Callendar (where the BBC series ‘Dr Finlay's Casebook’ was filmed). This could have been a job for life, but at this stage he discovered the thrill of carrying out original research, via an investigation of urinary tract infection, for which he was awarded the degree of MD. This was a very unusual achievement for a young GP, and it was no surprise in 1966 when he became the first GP to be appointed to the Livingston Project — an experiment in which GPs divided their time between a hospital specialty in which they had special expertise, (in Hamish's case, general medicine), and general … ER -