Is there a doctor in the house?

[p38arover]

Not only do I get barrages from my wife about what I eat and drink, but I get it from our daughter who is an RN in ICU at The Mater in Newcastle.

However, she has now qualified as a doctor (she's just got a job at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle) and is giving me even more grief!

Is there no escape?

[Eevo]

no one ever died from eating the wrong thing.
(they died from complications of eating the wrong thing)

[p38arover]

Well, she started at big school last Monday. She's giving up nursing at the Mater in Newcastle.

The graduation ceremony is in March at UNE. She wants to replicate her high school graduation photo. I'm not sure if we got a pic at the end of primary school when she was dux. She must have got her brains from her mother. :(

Some people have proud fathers. :D

[superquag]

Methinks she will make an excellent Medico, having come up via a route that is as close as possible to the original, and still the best way...a 'hands-on' and wide ranging apprenticeship

:D:p:D

Well Done, DOCTOR Beckett !

However, to defend yourself from the inevitable medical -Information brow-beating, I would seriously suggest you acquaint yourself with Dr Malcolm Kendrick and his books.- Start of with "Doctoring Data"...
Also, Gary Taubes and his seminal work, 'Good calories - Bad calories' (LOTS of references in there!)

[Narangga]

Great to hear Ron. Trust it is all she wants it to be.

However her progression says much about life. Start at on the bottom rung, work your way up, then back to the bottom.

It's also good that she should be able to provide for you in your retirement, in a way in which you wish to be come accustomed. :p :p :p

[p38arover]

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It's also good that she should be able to provide for you in your retirement, in a way in which you wish to be come accustomed. :p :p :p

When my wife said she'd be able to look after us in our dotage, she said she'll find a good nursing home for us.

It's been a long slog. She didn't tell us she was trying for med school when she was nursing in Derby. She was on holiday in the UK when she found out she'd been accepted and called us to let us know. Shortly after, we had to call to tell her that her brother had died. Then she was supposed to start doing medicine on the day of her brother's funeral so she deferred for a year. Halfway through her final year she needed a break so she stopped for 18 months. She had to do the final year again.

At last it's (almost) over. :)

[ramblingboy42]

Not only do I get barrages from my wife about what I eat and drink, but I get it from our daughter who is an RN in ICU at The Mater in Newcastle.

However, she has now qualified as a doctor (she's just got a job at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle) and is giving me even more grief!

Is there no escape?

Hahahaha , Ron , I'm right there with you.

I'm married to an RN, a professional educator on chronic disease and Illnesses.

She educates doctors and nurses in this area as well as her husband on a regular basis.

As a type2 diabetic I am regularly barraged with all the latest literature , monitors, guides, test machines , notebooks , pens and other rinkydink paraphernalia that medical reps seem to peddle.

Most of it goes in the bin.

Congrats to your daughter , it's a long road to get there.

Den.

[V8Ian]

Wasn't Elizabeth a doctor's receptionist? What role will you be playing in the family business, Ron?

[p38arover]

As a type2 diabetic I am regularly barraged with all the latest literature , monitors, guides, test machines , notebooks , pens and other rinkydink paraphernalia that medical reps seem to peddle.

Most of it goes in the bin.

I don't think I've read anything the NDSS has sent to me. I think Elisabeth reads it. I got one from the NDSS the other day about an NDSS "shopping trip" at our local Woolies. I didn't book it and was about to bin the letter because I knew I wouldn't remember any of it. Elisabeth did and she's going with me.


Wasn't Elizabeth a doctor's receptionist? What role will you be playing in the family business, Ron?

Yes, she was, until she became a Ward Clerk at Nepean Hospital in NICU (Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit).

Me? I'd be useless. Elisabeth watches a lot of medical programmes on TV, I can't stand them and don't stay in the room when they are on.

If I have to go to the doctor/dietitian/physio, etc., I take her with me for a couple of reasons: (1) if it's our GP, I generally can't understand him (Elisabeth can because she was his receptionist) and (2) I can never remember what they've told me. It goes in one ear and straight out the other. It has nothing to do with Land Rovers so it's immaterial.

[V8Ian]

I doubt you'd be useless Ron, there are many medical roles that can be fulfilled without qualifications.
I attended the Babinda Hospital after a broken leg failed to heal itself, within a week. The gardener was relieved from his weeding to take an X-ray; he was also the wardsman. :D
You could do the ECGs, you're pretty handy with wires.;)

[Narangga]

When my wife said she'd be able to look after us in our dotage, she said she'll find a good nursing home for us.

It's been a long slog. She didn't tell us she was trying for med school when she was nursing in Derby. She was on holiday in the UK when she found out she'd been accepted and called us to let us know. Shortly after, we had to call to tell her that her brother had died. Then she was supposed to start doing medicine on the day of her brother's funeral so she deferred for a year. Halfway through her final year she needed a break so she stopped for 18 months. She had to do the final year again.

At last it's (almost) over. :)

A lot more determination than some.

I hope she matches that determination with her diagnostic capabilities.

[p38arover]

A lot more determination than some.

I hope she matches that determination with her diagnostic capabilities.

She's never been able to diagnose why her mother and I married!

[p38arover]

I was searching for the Doctor Who thread and this thread popped up. I never updated it.

So here's a proud father doing just that. :p

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=111042&stc=1&d=1467961542

[rocmic]

Ron, I an see you are, justifiably, proud. As you should be, it is a remarkable achievement in anybody's book. Especially given the circumstance around her brother's passing.

All I can say is listen to her occasionally. If I had not been listening and helping proof read as my late wife wrote the national standard on stroke care, I would not have presented at Blacktown Hospital when I was weak in the left side three weeks ago. No, it wasn't stroke. I had a disc compressing my spinal cord, urgent operation at Westmead to remove the disc and to fuse the two vertebrae. Without the op, they tell me it would have been permanent quadriplegia within months or possibly weeks!

Again be proud and take heed.
Cheers
Mike

[sheerluck]

I can totally understand the pride. I'm looking forward to a similar event with my daughter in a couple of years time.

However, the Groucho Marx moustache?

[V8Ian]

However, the Groucho Marx moustache?

I must have better manners than you. :p

[p38arover]

Yes, I did tell my daughter of the moustache when I downloaded the pics. :D

Unfortunately, I didn't see the mike when taking the photos.

Mike, that issue you had sounds really serious. I hope all is well now and continues to be that way.

[p38arover]

I can totally understand the pride. I'm looking forward to a similar event with my daughter in a couple of years time.

However, the Groucho Marx moustache?

I expect to see photos (without the moustache!)

[sheerluck]

I expect to see photos (without the moustache!)

I'll make sure she waxes her top lip. :D

[ramblingboy42]

I think you fluked that pic Ron

The other woman in the background appears to growing one as well.