Sent: Thursday, 17 September 2015 2:43 AM
To: 'Andrew Byrne'
Subject: RE: Syd Uni Med reunion notes ... and photos of some old haunts. Dinner, anyone?
Andrew,
Thanks for the sending the update email
on the activities of some of our med school colleagues. A few years
back, when I was in Sydney with my second wife, who is from Chicago, we had a
morning to spare so we took a walk around the University and I showed her some
of my old haunts including the Blackburn and Bosch buildings. The Bosch
building was the site of the famous streaking incident in our third year when,
with a support team including Bob Sebesfi and Chris Fenton, Peter Brady, Jules
Eagan, and I streaked through three of the lecture rooms (with Philomena
McGrath in one room) before retiring to the White Horse Hotel in Newtown where
fellow students bought us beers for the rest of the day. With the two
buildings being torn down in the near future, I am glad that I took the
opportunity to see them a few years ago.
I found it interesting that Clive Lovell
is now involved in Aviation Medicine. One of the nice ‘sidelines’ of my
practice is that I am a consultant physician with the Federal Aviation
Authority in the USA. Along with a few other neurologists, I help the FAA
determine whether pilots who have neurological problems should be flying
planes. In addition, I sit on an FAA panel which works with the FAA to
help create guidelines for how to assess pilots with neurological problems, and
determine their risk for having recurrent events which is a major determinant
of whether they will be allowed to pilot a plane again. It is very
interesting work.
Hopefully, on one of your future trips
to the US, you can make your way to AZ and I can show you around the Mayo
Clinic campus here. My next trip to Australia will likely be sometime
next year, probably coinciding with the Australian Stroke Meeting, but I don’t
know the dates yet. I will hopefully be able to catch up with you and
others in our year when I am next in town. Last year, Bob Sebesfi and I
traveled to Port Macquarie and visited with Paul Jones for a few days – Paul is
working as a GP in Port Macquarie and it was great to catch up while we drank a
few (or more) glasses of Paul’s best red wines.
Best wishes,
Tim
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