
Main Areas: IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Gastroenterology, General Medicine, Web Medicine
Qualifications: MBBS, MRCPI
Current Career: Peter is Consultant Acute Physician and Gastroenterologist at the Royal Cornwall hospital in Truro, Cornwall, England, UK. He works in a very busy Medical Assessment Unit and Gastroenterology Unit at the hospital and also a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology.
Peter qualified in Medicine in 1993. After training in General Medicine, he trained as a Gastroenterologist in London and surrounding area working in internationally renowned hospitals including Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals. He took up his appointment at the Royal Cornwall hospital in October 2005.
Peter has a keen interest in IBS or the Irritable Bowel Syndrome and oversees his website, http://www.ibs-help-online.com which was created in January 2009. He provides a free online doctor service through the website, with the ethos of helping anyone that needs medical advice through the power of the internet. The website provides help and advice to sufferers of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome with the opportunity to share their knowledge and advice as a community website.
“IBS is more than a bowel condition, it is a multisystem disorder”
“Why do doctors find Irritable Bowel Syndrome so difficult to treat? The answer is really so very simple, this is a multisystem disorder that no one single treatment will cure”
“Web Medicine is a way of helping an individual, but in turn imparting knowledge to the majority ”