Last of the generations to get into Medicine without school science –
Belated thanks to all alphabet neighbours who carried me through physics, and
chemistry labs! House jobs in GRI and Stonehouse, Lanarkshire. One year in GRI
Bacteriology. Vocational training scheme in Dumfries.
Five years GP in Gourock before looking for greener pastures. Locums in Port
Isaac Cornwall, South Island New Zealand, Rochester and Leeds. Senior partner in Port Isaac was taken ill after I
left and forced to retire early. Ended up twenty six years in Port Isaac,
recently the home of the Doc Martin TV series and the Fisherman’s Friends -
probably the best GP job in the country in a beautiful part of the world.
Founder Member of the Dispensing Doctors Association and RNLI doctor for 25
years. Retired 2008, grateful for an excellent medical education and a happy
and lucky career. Wouldn’t have changed any of it (well maybe bacteriology).
Personal Details
Married Rosemary in 1972. Two children, Jennifer and John. Jennifer
graduated from Oxford in Modern Languages, worked in Munich, met and married
Per, (6’4” Swedish engineer -glad to have taller genes in the family tree),
lived in Bavaria for 11 years, now living in Sussex with Per and three
German-born beautiful daughters. John graduated from Aberystwyth in
International Politics and currently working in public relations in central London. Been playing golf
since age 11 (downhill since then but still have a handicap of 18 for services
to the community). Into photography, travel, ballroom and sequence dancing and
more recently fly fishing and learning Modern Greek.
