Dr David Wallace retired, ending a long and distinguished family association with caring for the people of the lower Sidlaws and east Carse of Gowrie areas.
His parents Bill and Frances started the practice at Lossiehall in Liff village in the 1950s and opened the first health centre in Scotland at Muirhead in 1969.
Dr Wallace (60) joined as a locum and became a partner in 1980, working with his mother after his father’s death.
He then presided over the development of Muirhead Medical Centre in Liff Road which was opened in 1997 by his brother Angus, one of Brtitain’s most respected orthopaedic surgeons.
When Dr Wallace began he was part of a practice with under 2,000 patients, but that number has grown to more than 7,000.
He has also moved from being on call every other night at Muirhead to being a member of out-of-hours teams working less often but covering the whole Dundee area.
His other duties included being part-time medical officer at Castle Huntly when the open prison was a young offenders’ institution and a similar post at the former Keillor sweet factory in Dundee.
He was also part-time medical assistant in urology at the former Dundee Royal Infirmary.
“I look back on my career with a lot of satisfaction,” he said.
“I’ve seen my practice grow into a modern health centre where I’ve been one of six full and part-time GPs with a range of staff offering a full list of provision.
“The quality of medicine we have provided is high and we have always had an extremely good community of patients. It has been my privilege to serve them.”