My friend and former colleague David Sturgeon, who has died aged 76, was for many years a lecturer in psychiatry at Middlesex hospital in central London, where he encouraged generations of medical students to introduce a psychotherapeutic approach when dealing with patients.
He was known for his great empathy and understanding. In later years he moved away from his focus on the academic side of his career to become a full-time consultant psychiatrist at University College hospital (UCH) in London, where he helped survivors of the King’s Cross fire of 1987, the Admiral Duncan pub bombing in 1999 and the 7 July 2005 bombings in London.
