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 A letter to a dead man

As our friends know, my wife and I have been rather poorly over the last year.  I with a burst Stent and my wife with a blood clot too  near her brain and damaged in part.

A number of my blogs and X's, were sent to Australia's top broadcasters,one Phillip Adams, who ran a program with the title of Late-Night-Live. It ran for many years and when I listened, he never hessitated with his perfect Diction and Clarity of voice        . I always said he was Australia's Ad Murrow and Englands Alister Cooke with Letter from America, which my family used to listen to each week.

I knew he had retired and hung up his earphones, but I wanted to thank him for is kindness. We had been away, off and on for a year, when I noticed no responses to articles I sent to Phillip and his email address went dead.

A letter to Phillip would do the job, so I wrote him a letter - Good old postal service and there it went.

In writing a strange thing happened, up popped Legacy message recording his funeral detail, damn it a year agoe .Ok better late than never.

 On this basis. 

Verbatunm I will Quote It   ------- A latter to a dead man.

 Mr Phillip Adams

Elmswood  

 Dear Phillip

What a year! I have hopefully wound down my Blogs-X's etc. In dong so  I made up a little package for people who have shown interest in my work.,

For you, it is a thank you for the kind responses you have made over the years, they certainly gave me the fortitude to say to the World my thoughts on matters pertaining.

Regretfully I never spke on your radio program, for many reasons I suppose. I do not listen now s I feel L N Lws Phillip Adams, full stop.

The grape vine tells me you have  not been well, this last year --- That is not allowed, under some convention, somewhere for older folk like us. 

 I had fun, when my stent burst and a helicopter ride Batemans Bay to  Prince of Wales Sydney, where they sewed it up. I just have to keep my pulse down to 55 Then came the real crash, my dear wife Patricia, had a blood clot next to her brain and they could not operate --- The damage was done, she is at home but will never be the same.

Thank you again Phillip, for your kind responses

Kind  regards to you wife and family\

Malcolm Mason

 As I write helicopter is flying north , I hope they make it ok.

King Charles is in Washington, we hope he and his Queen will be kept safe. The Princeton Prison is still there on Dartmoor England, the place where the first prisoners were from the colony now USA, It all fits in with the Kings Visit --I hop he mentions it.

 Kindest regards

JUST a YEAR LATE - Better late than never 

And so it was. The letter was mailed, to the family.

Phillip was one of the best and we miss him. 

I will never get a Koala stamp, but as tribute to him I will be changing my 'Call sign' to a painting of a Koala 

Malcolm E Mason

X@MalcolmEMason 

 masonedgar@gmail.com

 

  

 

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 Old Man n a Shoe

  

There was an old man who lived in a shoe, he had so many stories, he did'nt know what to do.

We do, said Firefox and Google....

Financed by three grandchildren Henry; Charlie and Lilly with $50, the blog was set up

in 2008. This is number 80 and I am 90 and looking like the Old Shoe.

It has been fun.

Malcolm E Mason

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Founding member (I think) Thermodynamics Institute, in the. memory of the late

Professor Frank Banister- Graduate School of Thermodynamics. University of Birmingham

England. Not only an Academic but a top teacher of fundamentals. All so long agoe.

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  Medical Staffing and After Care in Australia  (Part Two)

The original blog was published May 2025. Copies were sent to the NSW and Federal Health Ministers, here and overseas (UK etc).

The reason for this update is that, after my wife and myself, had experienced,different Hospitals in different locations. Always there was the problem of  a multitude of Doctors/Surgeons, writing Prescriptions, important to themselves, without the full history of my wife and I. GP were last to know any changes ,. Of course never allowed practical access, to the Patient in Hospital or Respite care etc.

In practice if the GP cannot access the Patient, an outside GP (With Accesss) would be called in, ie TWO Doctors, thus upping the costs.  

When we arrived home and saw our GP, the Computor had not been updated and of course the good Doctor was lost for a short while. 

The net result was  eight tablets to be taken per day----Oh one extra from the GP which the writer considers ridiculas--- we had to decide whi,ch ones were important  ------ not the end of that story as the patient cannot get to see the GP

Whilst I was thinking about this blog , I think on News Radio, up came the news that a Cambridge University. Group are well on their way to completing a research survey, on the very subject of OVER  prescribinng patients as per my findings. Their aim is to reduce cost to he National Health authority i the UK

 As my Pharmasist aptly stated, in your situation, it is the patient who must be looked after. (or words to that effect) Whew !!!!!.

This leads me to appologise for missing out Pharmasists in the original blog .May I make it quite clear, these people play Strictly Balroom and dispence as per Prescription. Unless of course there is a problem when  they will refer to he GP for clarification. I rate them highly, like surgeons etc

MOBILE DOCTOR SERVICES 

 I have been thinking of this subject for a while. 

We have Hospitals;  Retirement homes, The Patients Home, most of which do  not always have direct access to their own GP..

For certain the ambulance can deal with emergencies and Emergency Departments can do their thing,  - usually brilliantly    

 I strongly believe there is a niche market for a Mobile Doctor Service 

 To make what I call House Calls--- Urban and Rural, like Doctors in the old days and Vets still do.

There would be a Doctor and a qualified nurse , operating an Ambulance type vehicle. They could be based with the standard Ambulance Service and call on Patients anywhere required, like a home of a bed ridden Patient per my case in a forest some 35 kilometres from the nearest GP town.

With this service we can solve the problem of GPs refusal got out of their comfort zone and pay attention to their Duty of Care. like they used to do

That's it for now 

 Malcolm E Mason

 X@MalcolmEMason

masonedgar@gmail.com

KEEP WELL. and remember the Patient must have priority of CARE.

For Gp's and all in the Care bisness-- AI is coming so look lively and look at the Patient!!! for diagnosis and not always the computor screen..