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"I get my strength from my patients and my staff, and a desire to want to help people. I've always wanted to be a doctor and I love my job, even though yes, I do work long hours, and I do give my mobile number to lots of my patients, because if people need you, they need you. We’re a small practice and it really is a family one. We had a lovely Irish lady called Mary who was here for years, and when people called up she’d recognise their voices and call them by their names immediately – ‘Hello Peggy’, ‘Hello Tom’. She remembered all their names. And we’ve got 2 fantastic nurses here, Carmen, who’s now 70 and still works all the time, and Lisa the practice receptionist and secretary. They share the workload between them. She’s an ex-District Nurse and she does lots of house visits. She’s really good. She was doing that all during the pandemic - going to see people and chat to them at home. We’ve got quite a lot of elderly people around here, and they were frightened of coming in. So we switched to a lot of online FaceTime triage, and when people really wanted to be seen and touched we used our garden. We put a consulting table and gazebo out here.
"My older brother's a doctor, and my younger sister's a doctor as well. I've always been a caring person and my mum and dad were wonderful, caring, very loving people too. My father was a civil servant. He was from a small farm in the West of Ireland, and he was a really good guy. My mother was such a good person too, really nice. She died 40 years ago and I still really miss her. I’ve been here since 1989. I just live across the road here. A lot of the patients I see in Tesco's or other local shops, and in the park. I'm embedded. Also, I cycle everywhere - I don't use a car. It's nice. You know people, they respect you, they like you, and that feeds back into my sense of wellbeing. I'm 66 now, and I've just been re-validated for the next 5 years."
"I get my strength from my patients and my staff, and a desire to want to help people. I've always wanted to be a doctor and I love my job, even though yes, I do work long hours, and I do give my mobile number to lots of my patients, because if people need you, they need you. We’re a small practice and it really is a family one. We had a lovely Irish lady called Mary who was here for years, and when people called up she’d recognise their voices and call them by their names immediately – ‘Hello Peggy’, ‘Hello Tom’. She remembered all their names. And we’ve got 2 fantastic nurses here, Carmen, who’s now 70 and still works all the time, and Lisa the practice receptionist and secretary. They share the workload between them. She’s an ex-District Nurse and she does lots of house visits. She’s really good. She was doing that all during the pandemic - going to see people and chat to them at home. We’ve got quite a lot of elderly people around here, and they were frightened of coming in. So we switched to a lot of online FaceTime triage, and when people really wanted to be seen and touched we used our garden. We put a consulting table and gazebo out here.
"My older brother's a doctor, and my younger sister's a doctor as well. I've always been a caring person and my mum and dad were wonderful, caring, very loving people too. My father was a civil servant. He was from a small farm in the West of Ireland, and he was a really good guy. My mother was such a good person too, really nice. She died 40 years ago and I still really miss her. I’ve been here since 1989. I just live across the road here. A lot of the patients I see in Tesco's or other local shops, and in the park. I'm embedded. Also, I cycle everywhere - I don't use a car. It's nice. You know people, they respect you, they like you, and that feeds back into my sense of wellbeing. I'm 66 now, and I've just been re-validated for the next 5 years."
