Farewell Dr Findlay
I want to wish Dr Iain Findlay a very happy retirement after 30 years as a cardiologist at the RAH in Paisley.
What an amazing career and what an amazing man.
It was so nice to read about his fascinating time in medicine in the Express ( June 21).
He must have treated thousands of patients during his time and witnessed a huge number of advances in his field.
You would expect him to be putting his feet up to relax, but I suppose it is a mark of the man that he is hoping to head off with his GP wife Aileen to Malawi to work in hospitals there.
Though I have been lucky enough not to have required his care, his reputation is well known in the region.
I’m sure he will be sadly missed among the staff at the RAH as he most certainly will be by its patients.
Thomas McLennan Paisley
Verydisappointed
I write in response to Mary Fee’s column on June 19.
It was a great disappointment to hear Mary criticise the SNP walkout at Westminster.
Donald Dewar once led a walkout of Scottish Labour MPs because the Conservatives were not taking Scottish devolution seriously.
It is disappointing to see a party that once prided itself as the defender of devolution deciding to abstain on protecting the devolution settlement.
It is with even more regret to see one of my Labour list MSPs not give an explanation as to why her Westminster colleagues chose to abstain on the power grab.
But instead to turn it into an attempt to slander the SNP which is the only party defending devolution.
Finally, Mary Fee’s column had three pieces in it on this date.
In each one Mary found an excuse to criticise the SNP.
I would recommend that Mary stops playing party politics by continually slating the SNP and instead starts showing her constituents what she is actively doing to help improve the West of Scotland region.
Bruce MacFarlane Paisley
It is a mark of the man that he is hoping to head off to Malawi to work in hospitals there