Peter Fisher

Fisher died in a cycling accident on 15 August 2018. Following his death, Dr Gill Gaskin, medical director of the specialist hospitals board of University College London Hospitals (UCLH), said, "Peter was a highly regarded colleague and friend of many at the RLHIM, where he worked for more than 35 years. He was an international figure in homeopathy who was committed to holistic and compassionate care for his patients."

He had two daughters, Lily and Eve, from his marriage to Nina Oxenham, from whom he was divorced in 2015.

Fisher was awarded the Polish Academy of Medicine's Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal in 2007.

As a prominent practitioner of alternative medicine he was frequently criticised by sceptics. In 2006 he participated in a debate with science writer Ben Goldacre at the Natural History Museum on Does Homeopathy Work? and his contribution was described by evidence-based medicine campaigner David Colquhoun as "shameless cherry-picking of the evidence". His claim that randomised controlled trials "cannot capture the possible benefits of homeopathy" and his defense of the disproven "water memory" hypothesis of homeopathic medicine was critiqued by Rose Shapiro in her book Suckers. Fisher had said of sceptics, "What they prefer to do is to blog, or tweet, so they can make nasty sneering public remarks and you can’t come back at them."

Peter Antony Goodwin Fisher, FRCP (2 September 1950 – 15 August 2018) was an English physician who served as homeopathic physician to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II for 17 years.