How the NHS sprung Dr Harry Brünjes to success

Dr Harry Brünjes combined his acting skills with his medical experience to set up a multi-million-pound private healthcare business.

Few doctors have put their amateur-dramatics skills to such profitable use as Dr Harry Brnjes. As a teenager he balanced his studies with a budding career as a redcoat at Butlins.

Later, while he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, he spent his spare time playing small roles in TV shows and musicals. But aged 25 he packed in his part-time acting, for the time being, and devoted his time to his medical career.

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James McKeigue

James graduated from Keele University with a BA (Hons) in English literature and history, and has a certificate in journalism from the NCTJ. James has worked as a freelance journalist in various Latin American countries.He also had a spell at ITV, as welll as wring for Television Business International and covering the European equity markets for the Forbes.com London bureau. James has travelled extensively in emerging markets, reporting for international energy magazines such as Oil and Gas Investor, and institutional publications such as the Commonwealth Business Environment Report. He is currently the managing editor of LatAm INVESTOR, the UK's only Latin American finance magazine.