Dr Emily Witchard, GP

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Emily Witchard MB BS (Lond) MRCP MRCGP   (1976 – ), is an NHS General Practitioner in the Woolfonts and District, in South West Wilts.

Life
Dr Witchard was born in Chickmarsh on 28 August 1976 to Edward Witchard, the Town Clerk, and his wife Lettice. She was educated at South Wilts Grammar School for Girls, Salisbury, to which her parents removed in 1985. After school, she took her MB BS at Barts, now Barts and the London; and chose to qualify as a GP. She is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Career
Dr Witchard maintains a surgery in The Woolfonts, in which she has acquired a junior partner, Margaret Lee MB BS (Lond) MRCP MRCGP. She is active in community affairs, serving on numerous boards and committees, where her forthright manner is beneficial. Dr Witchard is also involved in the commissioning of the former Cottage Hospital in the District (founded by an earlier Duke of Taunton and invariably referred to by the current Duke as ‘the Cottage Hospital’), as a community hospital.

Downright and commonsensical in manner, unmarried, unchurched, uncompromising, unsentimental, and unruffled, Dr Witchard for all her misanthropic bluntness and allergy to religion is nevertheless fondly regarded (as well as respected and mildly feared) in the community, as witness her being always called and referred to as ‘Dr Emily’.