Village GP branded ‘the real Doctor Foster’ dumps patient lover

Village GP branded ‘the real Doctor Foster’ dumps patient lover she left her husband for after finding new romance with police officer

  • Clare Nettleton was branded the ‘real Doctor Foster’ over her affair with a patient
  • The 49-year-old went on to marry the patient named Richard Atkinson  
  • The pair have now broken up and the selfie-loving GP is dating a police officer 

A selfie-loving GP who bedded two patients and left her own husband for one of them has dumped her new man and found yet another lover.

Clare Nettleton, 49, was branded the ‘real Doctor Foster’ when her dramatic love life first went public in 2015.

The mother-of-two was suspended from working at Williton Surgery, in Somerset, for three months after she was found to have accessed the records of patient Richard Atkinson’s wife and two daughters.

Mr Atkinson left his partner Lucy Large for the doctor who he fell for at the village hall at a New Year’s Eve party, he claimed, leaving her feeling ‘shattered’. 

She went on to leave her husband Chris Davis and marry Mr Atkinson but their marriage fell apart soon afterwards, The Sun reports. 

During proceedings it emerged she had inappropriate relations with another male patient.

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Her life was compared to that of the main character in the BBC show Doctor Foster – although on this occasion it was her doing the dirty.

Now, villagers have once again turned their attention to the doctor after she met Andy Duncan, a police officer from Forfar in Scotland, the Sun Reports.

Clare Nettleton, 49, is dating a police officer in Scotland now, after dumping her former patient lover

Lucy Large, 41, with her husband, Richard Atkinson, 42, who had an affair with their village GP

Suspended: GP Clare Nettleton had an affair with father-of-two Richard Atkinson, and another patient

One male villager told The Sun: “She seems to thrive on the attention. She used to mow her lawn in her bikini knowing it would outrage the village but she didn’t care. And we were supposed to respect her as a professional.”

In December 2015, she was axed from another job in administration at a dispensary which involved working with medical records.

It is understood staff at the Dunster surgery had protested at Nettleton being given the role but their concerns were overruled by a senior partner.

However, she has returned to work at her former surgery in Williton and has since shared a number of selfies.

One local said her life was: ‘one car crash after another”. 

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