Charlotte Jones: Monmouth’s first female GP

bmj;379/dec13_6/o2995/FAF1faRetirement was not enticing to Charlotte Jones. At the age of 55 she underwent GP training and when the local, all male partnership in Monmouth, Wales, would not offer her a job she set up a singlehanded practice from her home, becoming the town’s first female GP.“For years I worked 24 hours, six days a week, because with my small list I was not earning enough to pay a locum. But I enjoyed running the practice and never turned down a patient, which is why my practice extended to Usk, Abergavenny, Herefordshire, and the Forest of Dean.”SinglehandedJones, who has died aged 95, did all her own night calls and visited 80 year old patients at home once a month, taking them a bunch of holly at Christmas.“I think I was probably good at listening and liked having a personal relationship with patients, all of whom I knew individually.” When the…
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