ABSTRACT
Mary ‘Mollie’ McBride began her medical career as a house physician to Lord Cohen of Birkenhead and then went straight into general practice as an assistant to a country doctor in Tarporley, Cheshire. Everyone who knew McBride has described her energy and enthusiasm and this was very evident from early in her medical career. With an expansive career as a full-time general practitioner partner, a wife and a mother, she served as a general practitioner member of the then Mersey Regional Health Authority. In 1990, McBride made a very big decision and moved from her general practitioner practice in Chester to a small practice in the East End of London. As Pereira Gray said, ‘many Royal College of General Practitioners leaders have spoken about social deprivation but only Mollie McBride upped sticks and went to work where conditions were particularly difficult’.
