Dr. Dennis set to retire after nearly 4 decades in medicine

Hampton physician Dr. David Dennis will hang up his stethoscope for the final time Sept. 30 after 38 years of service to Franklin County and the surrounding area.

     Dennis, a native of Denison, spent his entire medical career in Hampton. He started at the Franklin Medical Center (currently Public Health) in 1976 and moved into Franklin General Hospital (FGH) 20 years later. He first started visiting Hampton with practicing doctors as a medical school student in the mid-1970s, but there was something about Franklin County and the local hospital that stuck with him.

     "It just felt like a place where I wanted to raise a family," he said. "I pretty well knew where I wanted to be – in a setting where I could watch families grow. And I knew I could do that here."

     And that he did.

     Read the full article in the September 10 edition of the Press.