Laurence Buckman (born 19 March 1954) is a British

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who works as a

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(GP). Buckman was chairman of the

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's General Practitioners' Committee between 2007 and 2013. He was educated at the

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, then studied at University College Hospital Medical School. He became a fellow of the

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in 2001. , he is the London President of the Jewish Medical Association.

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