For the Fultons, medicine runs in the family.

Richard Fulton, who recently arrived back on the Island, has just become the third generation of the family to work as a doctor in Bermuda.

He is following in the footsteps of his father Ian and grandfather Morris, after spending the last decade as a paediatric consultant in hospitals around London.

“I grew up thinking there was no way I was going into medicine,” the father-of-three said:

“I have lots of memories of dad being called away at a minute’s notice to the hospital when we were playing golf or having our Christmas dinner.

“I tried my hand at construction when I finished school in England, but soon realised I was not very good at it.

“I realised I needed to find something constructive and it was really at that point medicine became a reality.”

Mr Fulton studied at Imperial College in London for six years and then specialised in paediatrics spending 11 years in hospitals in and around London.

He returned to Bermuda last month with his wife Shirene and family to join the team at Edgewood Paediatrics on Richmond Road.

Meanwhile, his father works on the other side of Hamilton as a gynecologist. He studied medicine in Edinburgh between 1969 and 1974 and returned to Bermuda in 1985 to set up his own practice.

Mr Fulton Sr said: “There are always subtle pressures when you grow up and your father is a doctor.

“People always ask you are you going to take after your father and things like that.

“I was born and grew up in Bermuda after my father moved here after the Second World War.

“He had his own practice in St George’s for a long time, so I grew up around medicine.

“But, for me it was only at around A-levels that I started to think about medicine as a career.”

Morris Fulton came to Bermuda in 1946 with his wife Diana to start a new life as a GP in the East End.

Today, nearly 70 years later, both his son and his grandson have chosen to serve their community in a similar capacity.