Remembering the life and times of Dr Maurice R Pearson. A Geordie lad, he made his mark. 16/01/1941 – 22/08/2023
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Early years and Tribute
A miner’s son, Maurice grew up in a small mining village called Greenside, with his father Harold, his mother Mary (known and Molly), and his big brother Derek. He graduated from Durham University School of Medicine in 1965, and practiced as a GP until 2003.
He was a family GP in Torridon, then Stornoway in the late 1960s into the 1970s, before finally settling in Wick and setting up The Pearson Practice, as local GP in the Wick Medical Centre from 1976.
Maurice’s father (a miner) and mother (a seamstress and teacher) are buried in a cemetery near Greenside, the village the family lived in. And his brother lives in Durham.
In 2024 the plaque below was left at his family graveside.
Here’s the original family gravestone in the Greenside cemetery.
Notice of thanks – retirement in 2003
When Maurice retired in 2003, he published a notice of thanks in the local newspaper the John O’Groat Journal.
I would like to thank all our friends and patients for their kind words in recent weeks and for their presents and donations on my retirement.
I have enough whisky to float a small ship and enough money to go a long way to buying my next new computer.
We would like to thank all the Medical Centre Staff (& Dr. Burns) for a wonderful evening out full of surprises and laughs.
I would also like to thank the many, many people who have helped me in my practice over the last 27 years.
My G.P. colleagues, the “girls” in the office, District Nurses, Health Visitors, Para-medical staff, ambulance staff, Pharmacists and of course cleaners and handymen, porters and carers.
Special thanks to those “on the front line”- Janet, Cath & Phyllis and to Mahri, my Practice Nurse, who had the difficult job on filling Norma’s shoes and has done so admirably.
Special, special thanks to Pat who started with me as a 17 year old all those years ago. She is the brains and the heart of the Practice. Her friendliness and efficiency, her ability to cope in a crisis, her knowledge of the patients and their families has made the Practice what it is.
She has embraced the new technology and used her now vast expertise to the benefit of the patients and the practice. And so much more that mere words cannot express.
It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work in Wick. I hope and I think I have made some difference to people’s lives.
I leave as a happy man but will shed a few tears – but for the good times.
Maurice R. Pearson
Notice of thanks, John O’Groat Journal, 26 September 2003
Contact
Should you wish to get in touch with the Pearson family, contact Lorn on lorn.pearson@me.com
Dr Maurice R Pearson B.Sc., M.B., B.S. 