Hi Andrew,
This is a Hal Rikard-Bell update.
Thank you, super job keeping us all in contact.
We have sold our
practice in Bathurst, after 25 years, a clinic of 5 old partners, 3
associates, 2-3 revolving registrars. A great team staying on and taking over,
including Joss, my daughter.
Retirement looms,
although still registrable until the end of the 2025 triennium. Maybe locums like the Katherine NT. stint last
year. [Carmen, Opera Australia, came on tour and performed in the open air school shed.]
15 years in West Wyalong before that, Rural Doctors Association, 100 or so
registrars in that time on their way to a FRACGP or FACRRM, a multitude of
students, Flynn scholars, plus teaching for Sydney Uni Orange campus.
Before that, a few years at RNS, a stint in Lismore, and
a stint in Papua Niugini.
OMG ! So does
that make that 44 years already?
Any way : best book: in the last few years “Girt” or
‘‘10% human’’
Best holiday : 2 weeks in a 5 man whaler wooden boat rowing down the
Colorado river.
Or CMH heliskiing
in Galena Canada.
Or 2
weeks walking from cape Ruthiere’s to King George falls WA.
Cycling
Shikoku was pretty good too.
Best
wine: Rikard 2015 Orange Pinot Noir, or
his 2013 Chardonnay. Ask Jim Wall for confirmation, Mark Henschke had some too.
Best
Race horse: Swilken Bridge, by Spirit of Boom. Because he’s a 2yr old and
unraced. Bernie Hudson might say we’re still in the ‘I wish and dream and hope
stage. ‘
Best
scientific advance in my time : heat stable polymerase giving us PCR etc
Greatest Joys : 3
children, 6 grandchildren and their
life’s journeys.
So….
Still cycling (as long as Megan waits for me at the top
of the hills), still squash, skiing, tennis, bridge, some chess, and a
terrible golf handicap,
Improvements planned: up-grade my poor Spanish, learn
more about Persian and tribal hand made rugs, help in the winery/vineyard,
advocacy for Rural GP’s, convince my
local member that we want ‘better not bigger’ ie stabilise population …
Regards,
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