Meet our doctors
The GPs at Farmdene Health Centre deal with medical problems where you may feel acutely ill, or for follow up for an ongoing problem. You can read more about our 6 GP partners below:
Dr Mike McMahon
Gender: Male
Primary qualifications: BSc, DFFP, MBBS
GMC number: 4209809
Dr McMahon joined Farmdene Health Centre in October 2006 from a practice in Southampton. He graduated from St Marys, London in 1996 and undertook his GP training in Brighton.
After a brief spell in New Zealand Dr McMahon decided to settle in Somerset. His medical interests are mental health and respiratory medicine.
Dr Barbara Hershey
Gender: Female
Primary qualifications: MRCGP, MBBS
GMC number: 5317955
Dr Hershey joined the practice in March 2015. She qualified from the University of Sussex Medical School in 2005 and worked in paediatrics, oncology and palliative care in hospital before deciding to change direction and become a GP.
Dr Hershey had been working in general practice Minehead before joining us. She lives nearby with her husband and children and continues to develop her special interests in general medicine and palliative care.
Dr Carlos Ezquerra
Gender: Male
Primary qualifications: MBChB, MRCGP
GMC number: 6582309
Dr Ezquerra grew up in Barcelona before attending medical school in Cardiff, qualifying as a doctor in 1999 and then undetraking his GP training in Merseyside.
After a brief spell practicing medicine back in Spain, Dr Ezquerra returned to the UK, working in general practice in Bournemouth prior to joining Farmdene Health Centre in 2010. His medical interest is the care of the elderly.
Dr Cassandra Anderson
Gender: Female
Primary qualifications: BSc, MBBS, MRCGP
GMC number: 5256981
Dr Anderson graduated from Birmingham Medical School in 2001 and undertook her GP training in Wolverhampton.
After some time working in general practice in the midlands and taking a year off travelling around the far east, Australia and New Zealand, Dr Anderson joined Farmdene Health Centre in August 2011. Her medical interests are family planning and women's health.
Dr Henry Flint
Gender: Male
Primary qualifications: BSc, MBBS, MRCGP GMC number: 4975802
Dr Flint studied for his medical degree at Southampton, qualifying in 2002. He completed his GP training in Portsmouth and then spent several years as a GP in Bristol before joining Farmdene Health Centre in April 2015.
As a marathon runner himself, Dr Flint has kept up a keen medical interest in sports medicine as well as continuing to develop his interest in dermatology.
Dr Galen DeMarco
Gender: Female
Primary qualifications: MBBS, MRCGP
GMC number: 4219751
Dr DeMarco joined Farmdene Health Centre in June 2016 from a small GP Practice in Taunton. She graduated from St Marys, London in 2011 and undertook her GP training in Somerset where she has continued to live and work ever since.
Dr DeMarco lives locally with her husband and 2 daughters. Her medical interests are in mental health and family planning.
