Who is Dr Douglas Jenkinson
Dr Douglas Jenkinson is a British family doctor and expert on clinical whooping cough in the community. He has published many scientific papers on this and other subjects and lectured at the University of Nottingham UK. He is best known for his book "Outbreak in the Village: A Family Doctor's Lifetime study of whooping cough", published in 2020 by Springer Nature. His website https://whoopingcough.net explains the disease comprehensively and has helped sufferers get diagnosed since 2000. It was the first website to have the sound of whooping cough. He is now in retirement.
Dr Douglas Jenkinson is also the webmaster of http://eugene-burnand.com, which is dedicated to the works the Swiss artist Eugene Burnand, with special focus on his military pastel portraits from the First World War (1914-1918).
Dr Douglas Jenkinson is also a photographer specialising in portraits of the elderly and disabled and his photography website is https://bloomingmaturity.com
About me
I have been a keen and constant photographer since the age of 13, so I am well versed in all aspects of the subject. I have embraced the transformation to digital enthusiastically and I contribute to Getty iStock and Adobe Stock photoservices.
My medical training was in Liverpool and I subsequently worked for several years in Central Africa before returning to the UK and becoming a family doctor in Keyworth, South Nottinghamshire for the next 37 years. I was involved in university teaching and obtained a doctorate for my research into whooping cough, which I have also written a book about. ('Outbreak in the Village', Springer-Nature 2020). I am still registered with the General Medical Council (number 0396235).
When my first daughter was born prematurely she was immediately place in an incubator located elsewhere. Within two hours I had a photograph of her on my wife's bedside locker to facilitate the bonding process. It was a novel idea over half a century ago, but I instintively felt it was important. Now it is normal.
I realised the need for special portrait service while visiting a recently widowed old friend. Her husband had developed Parkinson's disease and a local photographer in his studio had struggled to get a portrait of him that did not show any sign of the affliction. He succeeded and she could hardly stop looking at that framed picture in her living room. It gave her great comfort.
I realised that I was ideally placed to provide such a service in people's own homes.
Previous large commissions include photographing all the works of the famous Swiss artist Eugene Burnand (1850-1921) in his museum in Moudon, Switzerland, and photographing all the (over 2000) graves in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome for their database.
Doug Jenkinson DM FRCGP