Tributes to St George medics

Re: "GP will be missed" (Leader, July 7).

The article on Dr Mary Stuart and subsequent letters praising her achievements is a tribute to her caring and professionalism. I remember many other doctors in the St George area who have also been caring and efficient.

Dr Newman Manion was well known at Brighton-Le-Sands since the 1950s. He was my doctor when I had scarlet fever when I was about 12.

He attended me every day and I received penicillin injections when I was quarantined in my house.

Dr Manion also attended me when I had pernicious vomiting (hyperemesis gravidarum) during my first pregnancy.

He arranged for a specialist at St George Hospital to come to the house and Dr Hyde ordered a bed be made available for me.

I was admitted into intensive care for 10 days.

Without Dr Manion's and Dr Hyde's expertise my son and I might never have survived — I had lost about 2 stone in weight and was also extremely dehydrated.

Dr Munk and Dr Melville were helpful and kind to my mother before and after her terminal illness.

Mum really appreciated the help she got from the doctors at Dr Manion's surgery and I continued there as a patient until I remarried and moved to Bexley.

Lesley Chapman, Lakewood