Career
Tricks learned in early stints of Obs/Gyn, Paeds. and Anaesthetics ( a
3/12 crash course at Law under the wily tutelage of career registrars Terry
Nunn ..... plastered most of the time..............ask him! and George Wylie)
were deployed to the best of my ability in an 18/12 spell in a developing
country situation in the Transkei, Eastern Cape, S.A. ......challenging and
rewarding.
Back in UK, after a GP Trainee year in Crieff and 18/12 General Medicine
at Hairmyres, where, after due diligence I acquired an MRCP, MRCGP and a
fiancée (a resident I'd taken under my 'protective wing') in ascending order of
life importance, the main career was as an Arran GP.
The 30 yr sojourn included the appearance of 4 sons interspersed by a
daughter in a 10 year breeding cycle, so family life has been a major feature.
I am happy to be able to say that with excellent partners in practice
and marriage, I thoroughly enjoyed my as a GP and rural hospital MOb, ut
by 2007, with the face of General Practice changing and a good successor
identified, I was happy to call it a day. In a 4 week volunteer stint at
a Transkei hospital in Jan 2010 I was saddened to find that all the 70's
problems persist, plus HIV/AIDS.
