Dr Robert M. Youngson

Robert Youngson is a doctor who, after a varied career as a general medical practitioner, medical administrator, lecturer and senior clinical consultant, retired from clinical practice to become a full-time writer. He is now an established author with 38 published books to his credit and UK sales of over 1,500,000 copies. Dr Youngson is the author of the NHS Direct Medical Encyclopedia. This is a substantial Internet medical encyclopedia written in simple language and accessible to the public free of charge from the NHS Direct Home Page. It receives thousands of hits every month.

Robert Youngson’s books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Czechoslovakian and Greek and also published in the USA, Australia and South Africa. Several large print editions have been published.