Mary clocks up 42 years with NHS
FAMILY, friends and colleagues – both past and present – gathered in the Norseman Hotel in Wick to celebrate the retirement of Mary Macleod.
Mary, who lives at Gerston, Halkirk, has clocked up an amazing 42 years with NHS Highland.
Commencing training as a diagnostic radiographer in 1961, she worked briefly in Glasgow before taking a short break to start a family.
She took up her present post on November 24, 1969, working primarily at the Dunbar Hospital in Thurso. She has become a well-known figure in the X-ray departments in both Wick and Thurso, latterly specialising in ultrasound scans.
She is well remembered by employees and consultants, past and present, for always going that extra mile to put patients first.
On her retirement Mary received gifts which included a specially commissioned painting by local artist Alice Calder, exclusive Sheila Fleet jewellery, a voucher from the stone quarry at Spittal and flowers.
Donations are also being collected for Mary’s chosen cause, Crohn’s disease.