Gerald Tompkinson is Lawrence White's private doctor. In November 2014, Lawrence phones Gerald faking a heart attack to get back at his daughter Chrissie's fiancé Robert Sugden's during his memorial for his dead mother Sarah. Gerlad checked Lawrence over and assured Chrissie that Lawrence did not have a heart attack. In November 2015 Lawrence called Gerald out to look at his fianceé Bernice Blackstock's wrist after she fell off a tandem bike.