2014 BEST WISHES FROM WA'S HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Christmas Greetings Feature
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An Aquatic Christmas Dr Matt Wright Head of Haematology FSH I was teaching in Port Moresby, PNG, and went snorkelling off a remote island. A local fisherman stopped for a chat and told me he had abdominal pain. There I was, a beautiful day on a stunning island with the patient lying on the sand and me in board-shorts. Diagnosis? Splenomegaly‌ yes, bulk-billed.
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Dr Mini Zachariah 5P BMM NZ SFGFSSJOH EPDUPST and colleagues. A Merry Christmas and a Safe & Happy New Year.
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Wishing you an abundance of friends, happiness, and fun this holiday season and beyond. Deus ex Machina Prof Daniel Fatovich RPH Emergency Physician I saw a patient on Christmas Day who’d taken an overdose. When I asked him why, he told me he’d been given a computer game as a present and the computer beat him!
We look forward to assisting and serving your patients in 2015.
SEASON‘S GREETINGS
We sincerely appreciate your continued support and goodwill throughout 2014. We wish you, your staff & your families all the joys of this holiday season on behalf of the Doctors and staff at SKG Radiology.
Dr Sue Ulreich Ulreich, CEO & Radio Radiologist www.skg.com.au
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Dr Yovich & all the staff at PIVET wish you & your families a joyful festive season & thank you for your continued support. For all appointments & enquiries:T: (08) 9422 5400 | E: info@pivet.com.au Visit www.pivet.com.au for more information
Action Replay Dr Peter Melvill-Smith Psychiatrist I was working in a busy ED on Christmas Day in South Africa. A nurse asked me to assess a distressed and seemingly delusional female patient named Mary who told me she’s just given birth to baby Jesus in the examination room. Sure enough, there was a healthy newly-born infant lying in the hand-basin. We transferred Mary to the obstetric ward where she celebrated the big event with many others who believed her!
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Traces of Christmas Dr John van Bockxmeer Emergencyy Registrar It was about six weeks after Santa’s Big Day D Out. O t A four year-old patient had developed an unseasonable, persistent cough with no atopic history and all other family members were fit and well. After failing to respond to various forms of treatment a CXR revealed a foreign body shaped suspiciously like a Christmas tree decoration in his lung!
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It was 1988 and I’d snuck into the Gnangara pine plantation with my new girlfriend to lop off a branch for a Christmas tree. ‘Is this illegal?’ she asked. ‘Strictly speaking, yes’ I replied. After telling her that theoretically we could be arrested her eyes lit up. ‘I’m so excited,’ she said. ‘This is the first illegal thing I’ve ever done in my life!’ I almost dropped her there and then. PS. We’ve just celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary.
All the very best for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
SEASON'S GREETINGS Dr Victor Chan and staff Wish to thank all GPs who have supported them during the year.
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Mr Marek Garbowski Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon 5P BMM NZ SFGFSSJOH EPDUPST BOE DPMMFBHVFT thank you for your outstanding and continued support UISPVHIPVU * MPPL GPSXBSE UP XPSLJOH XJUI ZPV JO Wishing you, your loved ones and your staff a joyous, healthy and safe holiday season and all the best for the New Year.
The Cardiologists and Staff of Western Cardiology wish all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks to all referring doctors for their support during the year. We look forward to continuing quality care for your patients in the future. Dr Mark Hands Dr Eric Whitford Dr Stephen Gordon Dr Philip Cooke Dr Brendan McQuillan %S +PIBO +BOTTFO Dr Paul Stobie Dr Chris Finn Dr Eric Yamen
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Christmas Comes Early Professor Lyn Beazley former WA Chief Scientist I was in Oxford studying nerve cell death. It was pretty ‘cutting edge’ stuff back then and I had all but given up on getting a result. After seven weeks work – 42 days, the same number at the end of the Douglas Adams Universe – it finally turned up on Christmas Eve. An early Christmas present a long way from home!
Drs Omar Khorshid, Toby Leys, Matthew Scaddan & Paul Khoo wish all our referring doctors and colleagues an enjoyable and safe Christmas and New Year. We look forward to working with you all in 2015.
All here at Venosan thank our referrers, clients and colleagues for their wonderful support throughout the year. We wish you all a safe and happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Jenny Heyden 3/ Consultant Venosan WA
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A Working Christmas Dr Adele Thomas GP Mary, in her late 70s, turned up with some small, black stones and told me they’d come from her belly. I examined her and found an inflamed area with a tiny hole in the right upper abdomen. Squeezing it produced several more gall stones. She refused to go to the ED because she had a Christmas client waiting at the pub. Apparently she was a part-time ‘working gal’ and we had to arrange surgery around her ‘professional’ appointments.
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Wishing all our referring doctors & patients a joyful festive season
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Medical Service My most unusual 25th December occurred when three of our orphan, hand-raised juvenile kangaroos got into the family room and decided to have a boxing match with the Christmas tree and pile of presents. The aftermath looked like the remains of a Kangaroo Zombie Xmas Apocalypse and then they had the temerity to lounge around in the wreckage waiting for their milk bottles!
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Wishing you all a Jolly Merry Christmas and a Refreshingly new approach to a Minimally Invasive Vascular Happy New Year. With Best Wishes from John Teasdale and all our Friendly Staff at WA Vascular Centre. Calls for advice are Welcome–my Mobile: 0419832279 Perth, Fremantle, Joondalup, Mandurah, Northam
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