German because a doctor whose opinions he valued said they were necessary to keep abreast of what was happening on the continent. ... Although his life-long relationships with doctors Robert Scot Skirving and Alexander MacCormick had not always been
Bernie planned and oversaw the progressive provision of beds as nurses and doctors were enrolled and appointed so that by 1980 Westmead was fully functional. .
He was offered this position at the young age of 33 “because at the time there weren’t many senior doctors who knew much about the new specialty of kidney disease”.
a kindly but not very learned doctor. He it was, whose favourite diagnosis, when in doubt, was ‘an irritation on your liver’. ... When practice was slack the old social doctor’s wife used to say: ‘My dear we’ll give a few big dinners’ and the
of the Flying Doctor Service and to the possibilities of aircraft for medical work”. ... Today, the Royal Flying Doctor Service covers all states of Australia and the Northern Territory.
As there was a high demand for doctors a special final examination for the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery was held in December 1914 for the benefit