Braemar's 85th News
Brewis Dreadon
Thursday, February 23, 2012In 1937, a Braemar doctor performed a ground-breaking operation on a four-month old Hamilton boy. Brewis Dreadon, now 74, says he probably would not be alive if it weren’t for the skill and the courage of his surgeon… Brewis Dreadon’s parents were so grateful to the surgeon who operated on him as an infant that they named him after the man they believed saved his life. “I...
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Dr Michael Easther
Monday, January 23, 2012In the 1980s, GP Michael Easther employed an unusual practice in the operating theatre at Braemar Hospital, as this account reveals… In June, 1986, a patient was wheeled into theatre at Braemar Hospital. It was a routine operation. The patient – a young man named Bruce – was to have a screw removed from a previously fractured right scaphoid (a bone in the wrist). For orthopaedic surgeon...
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Joan Worthington
Monday, January 23, 2012Joan Worthington loved her career as a nurse. But she says in the 50s there were few luxuries at Braemar Hospital… Two experiences shaped Joan Worthington’s decision to become a nurse in more than 60 years ago. One occurred when she visited Cassel Hospital in Hamilton as a child with her mother. “I loved the smell and the look of it. I decided then that I...
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The Cole Family
Thursday, December 15, 2011Braemar Hospital is celebrating its 85th birthday this year. To mark the occasion, we would like people to send in their memories of the hospital during its early years in Hamilton. Two people who had an early association with the hospital were John and Sally Coles from Karapiro. This is their story… John Coles’ mother, Doris, gave birth to three of her six children at Braemar’s...
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The Irvine Family
Thursday, December 15, 2011Irvines have been pharmacists for three generations they served Braemar Hospital for 82 years… When Bill Irvine was born at Braemar's maternity unit Waione in1944, his family could never have known that his association with his birthplace would last for many decades; that the steep Tainui St driveway to the hospital-on-the-hill would become almost as familiar as his own. At the time of Bill's birth his...
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