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‘He was a truly fabulous doctor’: Tributes paid after death of Suffolk GP

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Tributes have been paid to a GP who worked in Haverhill for 30 years, following his death at the weekend.Dr Donald Burton died on Saturday in King’s Lynn hospital, Norfolk at the age of 95.Dr Burton came to Haverhill in 1957, joining existing GPs Dr Rupert Barrington and Dr Peter Dagger.Gavin Staples, a friend of Dr Burton, said of him: “My parents met Dr Burton in 1958 when my father, who was a dentist in Haverhill, employed him to assist him with general anaesthetics when nitrous oxide was used as an anaesthetic.“My father quickly became very good friends with Dr Burton.“They had both been through World War Two and had plenty in common having just qualified in medicine and dentistry in those immediate post war years. “In the early days my mother who was a qualified nurse assisted my father and got to know and appreciate Dr Burton’s excellent and professional expertise.“Both my parents became close friends with Dr Burton and his wife Barbara.“As a child Dr Burton was my GP, and he was my GP until I went to live in Australia in 1987.  “Dr Burton wrote my medical report and my chest X-rays which were a vital conditional part of my visa at the time.“All of us recall Dr Burton had a most wonderful manner with his patients. “His excellent mellifluous voice was very distinctive and at the same time wonderfully reassuring when we had illness or anything which required treatment.”Dr Burton retired in 1988 at the age of 60 to look after his wife Barbara who was often unwell and more so to look after his youngest son Andrew who had cystic fibrosis and as a result died in 1991.Dr Burton’s wife Barbara died in November 2019.Mr Staples, who was informed of Dr Burton’s death by the GP’s eldest son, Stephen, added: “He was a truly fabulous doctor.”

Tributes have been paid to a GP who worked in Haverhill for 30 years, following his death at the weekend.Dr Donald Burton died on Saturday in King’s Lynn hospital, Norfolk at the age of 95.Dr Burton came to Haverhill in 1957, joining existing GPs Dr Rupert Barrington and Dr Peter Dagger.Gavin Staples, a friend of Dr Burton, said of him: “My parents met Dr Burton in 1958 when my father, who was a dentist in Haverhill, employed him to assist him with general anaesthetics when nitrous oxide was used as an anaesthetic.“My father quickly became very good friends with Dr Burton.“They had both...

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