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About Me Stories

A publication dedicated to bringing out the stories behind the writers themselves. A place of autobiographies. Types of personal stories include introductions, memoirs, self-reflections, and self-love.

About Me — Henry Tegner

2 min readNov 4, 2022

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My career was as a general practitioner (GP) in the UK National Health Service. I practiced in a partnership of doctors in southeast London for thirty years before moving to Wiltshire to work a further five years as a freelance locum GP. I ceased clinical practice in 2011 at the age of 65 but continued to work on Tribunals for the Courts and Tribunals Service where together with judges and disability specialists I heard appeals from people who had been refused disability-related benefits. I finally retired in 2018 at the age of 71. As a GP I was much involved with postgraduate teaching and in 1993 I completed a master’s degree in general Practice at the University of London. In the year 2000, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Latterly I was an examiner for the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners qualifying examination.

My early life, though comfortable, was not always easy. My mother died quite suddenly when I was six and my father, not up to raising a young family, sent my brother and me to a boarding prep school a considerable distance from home. Existence there has always seemed to me to be much the same as that of an open prison. I was homesick and often unhappy there.

I have been married to Agnes for 52 years at the time of writing this. We have three adult children and five grandchildren in their teens who are currently at secondary school and at university.

We have traveled quite widely in the Northern Hemisphere (I have never crossed the equator) including Japan, North America, Central America, the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent, Iceland, and across Europe.

I have always enjoyed writing both fiction and non-fiction (medical articles). Some years ago, I transcribed the journals written by my great-grandfather Dr. James Stuart Eldridge when he was working as a doctor in Japan in the mid-nineteenth century. These are available as a Kindle publication: ‘The Journals of Doctor James Stuart Eldridge — an American Physician working in Japan at the Time of the Meiji Restoration’. More recently I have self-published a collection of short stories — ‘The Silver Chain of Sound’. This is available on Kindle and as a paperback.

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About Me Stories
About Me Stories

Published in About Me Stories

A publication dedicated to bringing out the stories behind the writers themselves. A place of autobiographies. Types of personal stories include introductions, memoirs, self-reflections, and self-love.

Dr Henry Tegner
Dr Henry Tegner

Written by Dr Henry Tegner

I am a retired physician resident in the UK. I write mostly short fiction and articles related to general practice.

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