From Melbourne
16.4.85
Dear Alan,
Congratulations
on entering the manacles of matrimony. How many offspring have you produced so
far? I am sorry I did not write earlier but there have been a few ups and downs
in my life over the past 6 months. I hope your address is correct but if it
isn’t I guess you won’t be reading this … so why am I bothering to write it?
I have
been working in Papua New Guinea since Dec last year and have only just
returned to Oz. I had an interesting job up there but was forced to leave due
to repeated and increasingly violent attacks on myself. Apparently, and unfortunately,
I inherited a payback feud which was originally aimed at my predecessor in the
position a pom. This was a pity as the clinical work was great…. Even if the conditions,
equipment, materials and staff were not.
I was
one dentist to 330,000 people all of whom were in need of dental help. I was shocked by the fuckin’ low standard of
dental health. Anyway I spent 99.99%
of my time playing oral surgeon and learnt a lot. It was bloody good experience
that I could not possible get in Australia.
I received any amount of 8’s, saw a hell of a lot of oral CA and had a
go at removing a few of the smaller ones, wired broken jaws. I was even asked
to repair a middle third fracture … with no fuckin’ Levant frames etc. It is
bloody amazing what you can do when you have to! It has made me bloody cynical
about the position that oral surgeons put themselves in in Australia. They are
full of shit in my opinion I certainly won’t be referring too many patients to
them in the future! Actually since you left the numbers of oral surgeons in
Melbourne has probable doubled.
As this
is the first job I can truly say I enjoyed I will be looking for another like
it. Right now I am doing nothing but am planning to go to the UK by about the
middle of next month. I have a work permit for the UK which I was bloody lucky
to get as a week after I get it the immigration policy was changed and no
longer will Aust doctors and dentists be given easy access to permits. Thus, so
long as enter the country within 6 months my permit is valid. I only intend doing
a few locum positions to stop me from going broke….that is if there are jobs
available. Obviously the reason the immigration policy was changed must be
because they no longer need our wonderful help.
I have
plenty of pommie friends who I intend to visit and parasitise and this is the
real reason for going. I also have a
girlfriend in Holland who has asked me to visit so no matter what I do I should
have a good time. God, I’ve been talking about going to the UK ever since I
graduated!
Remember how we tentatively we’re thinking of going early 1980? Well
at bloody last I’ll get there!
Well
that is about all I can be bothered writing for now. Please keep in touch and if
you see any jobs that may interest me please let me know. As I intend seeing a bit of the world before
I return to work in Aust don’t be surprised if I visit RSA.
Let me
know how life’s treating you, you old bastard!
Regards
CJ
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