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Largs & Millport Weekly News
24th February 2019

Retired GP’s book charts female fight for equality in the 1960s

A RETIRED Skelmorlie GP has told how she was inspired to pen her first book – after fearing the stories of brave female medical workers facing cruel discrimination in the 1960s could be lost forever.

Dr Anne Pettrigrew, 68, who offered homeopathic support to Largs residents for many years, has put pen to paper to chart the struggles of medial students and the fights they faced to carve out a career in the profession.