Senior English (Macbeth) - Tapa dura

Dr Hamilton comes from a background of clinical and academic general practice. His medical career began in hospital medicine, including 2 ? years as a physician in Malawi, followed by 11 years as a principal (and senior partner) in general practice. He is now a full-time primary care researcher, funded by the NHS. His main research interest is in diagnosis in primary care, particularly that of cancer, and he recently completed three diagnostic studies for the Department of Health on colorectal, prostate and lung cancers. The colorectal results in particular have borne fruit, in that further studies on a tool for earlier diagnosis of this cancer have been funded by the DoH.

Dr Hamilton is a founder member of the NRCI Primary Care Studies Development Group (the umbrella organisation for cancer studies in primary care) and the NICE Guideline Development Group for CFS/ME. He has written over 50 peer-reviewed publications, largely in the field of diagnosis, with cancer being the largest topic. Dr Hamilton also co-edited the 2nd edition of 'Orthopaedics in Primary Care', which involved the key skill of translating orthopaedic surgeons language into English! His writing is not just the dry format of research papers: he has written editorials for the BMJ and BJGP, lighter pieces for the back pages of the BJGP and a lengthy piece on constipation for BMJ learning!

As well as his medical qualifications he has a certificate in literature (with merit!) from the University of Exeter.

William Hamilton is a Protestant radical theologian. He was born inn Evanston, Illinois, and that means two things. He is fated to be a Chicago Cubs fan, and he was first captured by Shakespeare at the Globe Theater at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. College at Oberein, then Navy (communications with Germany) and graduate study at Princeton, Ohio Theological Seminary and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he did not play gold. He was taught in the fields of religion, literature, and intellectual history in New York, Florida and Oregon. He has written a dozen books and dozens of articles. His most recent books include Melville and the Gods, The Search for the Post Historical Jesus, and Shakespeare, God, & Me. He lives in Oregon with his wife, Mary Jean, a former member of the New York City Ballet Company.