Saturday, June 27, 2009

A great Jewish Presbyterian Australian

Systematically working through a pile of recommendations for appointment, I found a Professional Organisation I hadn't come across before - The John Loewenthal Club. Being the obsessional - I thought I should check it out. After all it would be embarrassing if the Vice Chancellor asked I didn't know.

What an amazing man John Loewenthal was. A surgeon who headed up key health promotion organisations like the National Heart Foundation. A gardener and a military man. Survivor of some of the most difficult battles in World War 2. Internationally acclaimed and farewelled from Rose Bay.

"In the words of Professor Alexander Boyd, he was 'a really good, safe and dependable clinician; a neat and careful operator who [paid] great attention to technique'." What an amazing person. Who collapsed at an event given in his honour and never recovered. After living a very full life. Someone I would have liked to have known I think.

2 comments:

Jan said...

How interesting.

Anonymous said...

Really very interesting :)

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