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Career
Towards
the end of our pre-registration year, in June 1972, Neil and I got married.
Then after my SHO jobs in Obs.& Gynae and Dermatology, the first of our 3
children, Jacqui, was born on August 1st 1973.[ Igot the DRCOG while
6 months pregnant]
We
moved from Glasgow to Kilmarnock, and between babies I did assorted FPA
clinics, Child Health clinics for Ayrshire & Arran Health Board, and the
odd GP locum
On
moving to Northallerton in 1980, another lady & I approached one of the 2
General Practices in the town with a view to becoming part-time Trainees. They
had never employed a female doctor----how much has changed in 30years! They turned us down-------more because we
wanted to job-share than because of gender, I suspect. It took several more
years before their first female GP joined them.
Plan B was to consolidate existing experience,
so I became a Family Planning Trainer and completed a Community Child Health
Diploma in Leeds. Over the years I worked in the Community, in Baby clinics, in
Schools and in Family Planning clinics, becoming a SCMO in 1987. Eventually, in
1993 , I became the Family Planning Lead for Northallerton District. I still do
2 or 3 clinics per month, and enjoy the contact with colleagues and patients, though
I plan to stop for good in August------40 years in the NHS is long enough! I
have no regrets about the course my career has taken---plenty of job
satisfaction, great variety, and wonderful countryside to drive through to
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Personal Details
We
became Grandparents in 2005, and now have 4 grandchildren, ranging in age from nearly 6 years to 5months----2 in America and 2 in Harrogate. Some of our
dwindling energy now has to be conserved for visiting and playing with them!
Hobbies
and Interests; Scottish Country Dancing, walking, playing Bridge for
fun, trying to play golf.
Some
voluntary work for local Mental Health Charities and Rethink.
Travels; Twice a year to Boston, Massachusetts, to see
Andrew & Lydia and boys. Doune, Perthshire, where Mum still lives. Dunoon, Argyll,--we bought a flat there in
2010. We did manage to visit St
Petersburg in 2000, and New Zealand & Japan in 2001,when son Andrew was
travelling the world and working in those places. Also had a 60th
birthday trip to South Africa which we both enjoyed.
We
think about planning trips to far flung places, but don’t seem to get any
further these days. |
