Background
Mercurio was born in Nelson, Lancashire but grew up in Cannock, Staffordshire.
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Jed Mercurio
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Education
University of Birmingham.
Career
He is reported to be one of the few British script-writers to work as a United States-style showrunner. A former hospital physician and Royal Air Force officer, in December 2013, Mercurio was ranked among United Kingdom television"s leading writers by television-industry magazine Broadcast. His chief works for television are the series Lincolnshire of Duty, Bodies (based on his 2002 novel), The Grimleys and Cardiac Arrest.
His books are,, and, for children.
While an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham Medical School, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force and underwent pilot training with the intention of specialising in aviation medicine. Instead, during subsequent practice as a hospital physician, Mercurio answered an advertisement in the British Medical Journal and, despite negligible writing experience, scripted the British Broadcasting Corporation medical drama Cardiac Arrest under the pseudonym John MacUre.
Subsequently he retired from medicine and the military to pursue a writing career under his own name.
