Dr David Clark Devoted, Kind and Enthusiastic Gp with a Life-Long Interest in Gardening
The Herald › December 13, 2005
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THE youngest child of ambitious parents, David Clark attended Netherlee Primary School, winning a bursary to Hutcheson's Grammar School where he excelled both academically and in sport and displayed a lifelong and unexpected characteristic - he challenged authority by refusing to wear his cap.
He won a further bursary to study medicine at Glasgow University, and on graduating in 1943 rejected the possibility of a reserved occupation and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Normandy, Belgium and Rhodesia. He married classmate Helen Phillips while home on leave in 1945. On demob in 1946 he joined his brother, John, in general practice in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, where he served his patients with enthusiasm, commitment, kindness and humour until his retiral in 1978.See the full content of this document
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Dr David Clark Devoted, Kind and Enthusiastic Gp with a Life-Long Interest in Gardening
Known by all as Dr David, he was a family doctor in the true sense, delivering babies and visiting the terminally ill nightly, knowing not only every pat...
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