The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 3

THE AGE, Monday, January 17, 1977 HOME NEWS Golly, what are you in here for? For them, being patient is no virtue By JO WILES, our Medical Reporter 5 sliilii I it V4 patient's problems as considerable he says there are almost as many on the other side of the consulting table. Consulting doctors may feel pleased at being approached but they also feel embarrassed and often neglect to do a full examination or to ask the usual questions. The fact that they do not get paid for servicing other doctors-is also a hindrance in some cases, i Dr. Gold says medical studies have shown that doctors tend tot prescribe fewer narcotics and fewer antibiotics to their doctor-patients, possibly to avoid being thought "a wild He suggests doctors' ills would be greatly remedied if medical students were taught that they are mortal and likely to fall ill at times during their career. And there should be a panel of doctors set up by professional associations to care for doctors and their families, he said.

Australian doctors are the medical losers. They hate being sick and resent being patients. When they do become ill they get second-rate treatment and often put up a stoical front which could lead to their illnesses going undetected and untreated. According to Melbourne psychiatrist Dr. Norman Gold, doctors are their own worst enemies when it comes to illness.

Dr. Gold, psychiatrist-superintendent of Malvern Clinic, says doctors cannot easily tolerate illness in themselves or their families. They are often trapped in the belief that they will never fall sick and that if they do their colleagues will be too busy to care. Dr. Gold says doctors frequently put off seeking medical help for fear of being thought hypochondriac or of being told they are really ill.

IT ticularly to one where they have had a professional association, their problems are compounded. Dr. Gold says the more senior the doctor, the more inferior the treatment because medical staff continue to treat them differently and may even allow them to prescribe their own drugs. Doctors- as patients feel embarrassed and humiliated when confronted by bed baths, bed pans and bottles. They deeply resent their loss of prestige in becoming patients and may adopt a stoical stance which could result in serious illnesses going undetected.

Dr. Gold believes medical patients who are accommodated with ordinary patients have the added problem of being regarded "as some sort of But while he views the medical Instead they treat themselves and their families, often with pharmaceutical samples which may be outdated, inadequate or likely to cause side effects. Dr. Gold says doctors tend to chop and change their treatment, too often using new drugs before their unwanted side effects have been fully documented. And, despite their knowledge of bacteriology and sensitization reactions, doctors are not reliable in taking full courses of antibiotic drugs.

Dr. Gold believes self-treatment Is widespread because doctors cannot easily tolerate a loss of omnipotence. He says when choosing medical help they often pick someone whom they feel they can dominate and this lessens their chance of getting good treatment. If they are admitted to hospital, par )V AS is? 'Redlich PS call to protest staff cuts hits at CANBERRA. A Public Service union official yesterday called for a work-to-rule by Government employees in protest at the latest cuts in Public Service staff ceilings.

sacJsm From STEPHEN NISBET Missing girl, 8, is found naked A girl aged eight, who disappeared in the Sydney suburb of Casula yesterday morning, was found naked at 1.25 am today locked underneath a primary school near her home. Police said the girl was distressed and appeared unharmed but they were not yet able to tell whether she had been physically assaulted. The police duty officer, Sergeant Gandy, said: "She is all sobs and crying and can give no real story as to why, when or how it all happened." The girl disappeared while on her way to buy a newspaper for her father. Police and neighbors made a house to house search throughout yesterday but could find no trace of her. Then, late last night, some of her clothing was found scattered in the grounds of the Casula primary school.

The clothes had not been there when the area was searched earlier in the day. Two detectives found the girl after climbing through a trapdoor in the school's foundations. By JOHN. IRENITSOH The Victorian ALP chairman, Mr. Peter Redlich, yesterday attacked the Federal Government for dumping him and a Melbourne businessman from the board of the Australian Industry Development Corporation.

Picture: JOHN FRENCH Mr. Geoff Blunden, ACT branch secretary of the Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association, said public servants should refuse to do work not covered by their duty statements and job classifications. He forecast a growing mood of militancy among public servants who were "fed up" with the frequency of Government attacks on them. The Treasurer, Mr. Lynch, announced on Friday that the public service staff ceiling for the end of June would be cut by 700 people.

This followed Public Service Board advice that staff numbers in midyear would be 700 below the previous target ceiling. Mr. Blunden said he was not advocating an "obsessive working to but officers should refuse work they were not paid to do. He said there was growing pressure on public servants to cope with unduly high volumes of work or to do tasks which properly belonged to more senior officers. Mr.

Blunden said publia servants facing these demands should ask for overtime or "higher duties'1 penalty rates. If extra pay were refused, the public servant should notify his union and decline to carry out the additional duties. Mr. Blunden said he was receiving a growing number of complaints from officers who were working unpaid overtime or being pressed to do duties beyond their work Peter Allen Is the Golliwog, one of the cast of The Little Tin Soldier, a pantomime at Monash University's Alexander Theatre which yesterday went to the Royal Children's Hospital to entertain children like Gorgena Eldridge, two and a half, of Warracknabeal. The two were the only Labor nominees on the board.

Mr. Redlich said the dumping was a good example of the vindictiveness and the stupidity of the Liberal Government. The Government had dumped him and Mr. David Hains despite a recommendation from the AIDC for their reappointment, Mr. Redlich claimed.

This was the first time any administration had failed to reappoint members to the board. Mr. Redlich said he had no doubt that the reason the Government had not reappointed himself and Mr. Hains was that they were first appointed to the board by the Labor Government. Cabinet to study Milawa losses Sex killer bathed ANL ship to join the navy A Mr.

Redlich "I have been informed that the only reason for A poignant BBC drama CANBERRA. The navy 4irtuse- powerful than win Buy me Australian Natiorrajr-Line roll-on roll-off terry Australian Trader for use as a more How training ship. The Minister for Defence, Mr. Killen, said yesterday the deal would cost about $8 million, including more than $5 million for the ship and spares and $1.5 millon for conversion costs. Guide dog lost iBy GERRY CARMAN The Easey Street sex murderer used his victims' bathroom to wash himself after the killings.

Homicide Squad detectives also said yesterday The story of the Seatort family in Tyneside just after the first war. they wanted to interview, two men. Their names were either in the address book Ken Campbell, who is blind, relies totally on his see Strikes, poverty, a crippling depression -but still there is taken from the Collingwoqd, terrace house or provided by men interviewed by police. ing eye dog, Cindy, to move anywhere outside his house. A 26 part drams series of a magnitude and depth rarely achieved before on television.

Only the BBC could attempt it -and do it so successfully that it sets soma new standards even for them. Cindv has been mlssine The women, Susan Bartlett, a teacher, and Suzanne Armstrong, 27, an unmarried mother, were the wit and natural charm of simple people fighting against something otherwise unbeatable. from her home in Hardwood Street, Kew, since stabbed to death. saturdav morning. Cindy, a female black labra- dor, is probably wearing a brown collar with a Lady Nell Seeing Eye Dog School disc attached.

If you find the dog, please The State Government will be asked to declare a disaster area at Mjlawa in the wild storm on'Friday night. As the clean-up began at the weekend, it was estimated that the final damage toll to buildings and crops could reach $2 million. I The MLC for North Eastern Provinve, Mr. Keith Bradbury, will discuss relief aid and compensation with the Acting Premier, Mr. Dickie, this morning.

The freak, 12-minute hailstorm cut a swathe of destruction across a four kilometre front centring on the small Milawa township, near Wangaratta. It severely damaged 12 houses, stripped hundreds of hectares of tobacco crops and ruined the 1977 grape harvest at the famous Brown Brothers vineyard. The four-classroom Milawa State School was completely unroofed, the 104-year-old Anglican Church gutted and the town's only hotel suffered extensive damage. Mr. Bradbury, Parliamentary secretary of the National Party, said preliminary damage estimates, not including the substantial losses of agricultural production, went well above $1 million.

Generous He will ask Mr. Dickie to have Milawa declared a disaster area to qualify for special Federal financial help. Mr. Bradbury said the State should also provide generous finance for compensation and to cover any unemployment created by the He said several elderly people had lost their homes, and stood to lose all their retirement savings unless there was adequate compensation. About 12 district tobacco farms suffered serious dam-aap fiup Incinff thpir entire ring oo 2144.

Work-to-rule 'When the Boat Comes In' is written by James Mitchell of Callan fame. Talks aimed at ending the work-to-rule campaign by James Bolam(above), teadlng dramatic actor on the West End stage and well known to television audiences for his role in 'The Likely Lads', plays Jack Ford. Susan Jameson (centre) plays Jessie Seaton who very much wants to marry Jack. Susan will be remembered from 'Coronation Street" Cars', and Australia iuuu air trar-fic controllers will resume in Melbourne todav. The campaign, which began the Government's decision not to reappoint myself was that I was chairman of the Victorian branch of the Labor Party," he said.

Mr. Redlich sftid the Government's decision has demeaned the AIDC by setting a precedent for political removals. The Treasurer, Mr. Lynch, announced on Friday that four members of the board would not be reappointed and the chairman of the AIDC, Sir Alan Westerman, would step down to be a part-time director. Mr.

Lynch said Sir Alan had decided not to seek reappointment to the position of chairman which he has held since the AIDC was formed in The other two board members not reappointed with Mr. Redlich and Mr. Hains are businessmen Sir Charles McGrath and Sir Colin Syme. It is understood Sir Charles and Sir Colin did not want to be reappointed. Mr.

Redlich said that when the then Labor Government had appointed him and Mr. Hains they had not been recommended by the board and Sir Alan. "But our appointments were universally approved by the Press and were never criticised in any way by the then Liberal Opposition as political appointments," he said. Liberals Mr. Redlich said that at the time of the appointments, the Labor Government had also accepted the board's recommendation and reappointed all the previous Liberal Government's appointees, including the then Federal treasurer of the Liberal Party, Sir Charles McGrath.

Mr. Redlich said he was pleased to see that a trade unionist was among the Government's new appointments to the board. He is Mr. D. McLeish, national president of the Electrical Trades Union and a member of ALP sub-committees on finance and local government policy.

Mr. Redlich said the appointment of a trade unionist was particularly important because the board had to make decisions involving "national interest "Acvcordlngly, it is important that unions and the Labor movement are represented," Mr. Redlich said. it Is unfortunate that the Government, having decided to make two changes in addition to the two vacancies, should only appoint one person to represent the Labor movement out of a board of he said. Miss Armstrong's body was found on her front bedroom floor.

Miss Bartlett was killed in the hall, between the bedroom and the front door. A neighbor, Miss Ilona Stevens, found their bodies at 9.30 am on Thursday Forensic police found traces of the women's blood in the bath "This indicates the person responsible spent some time in the house afterwards," the man in charge of the investigation, Detective Senior Sergeant Alf Oldfield, said yesterday. He said the frenzied nature of the attacks made it probable that the murderer was covered in blood. It was unlikely the killer would have been able to wash all the blood stains from his clothes. many bbc plays.

11 i eigne days ago, is disrupting domestic and international airline schedules. Crushed A 75-vear-oId forklift driv er was crushed to death Suzanne Armstrong Jj by his forklift at the weekend. He was Leonildo Ceoa, of Beckley Street, Co- burg. Shot dead A 14-vear-old nirl was killed yesterday at Avoca when a .22 rifle was accidentally fired through a closed door and hit How does the experience of man's first brutal global war change the life of a loner like Jack Ford a man determined to fight his way out of his social and economic environment and join th9 her in the stomach. Susan Veitch, of Day Street, Avoca, was visit-ine friends in Faraday crop.

Their total loss has Street, Avoca, at about been estimated at more man $500,000. The executive director of the Insurance Council of Australia. Mr. John Janicke, 4 p.m. when the accident occurred.

Police said the rifle was being handled by a 17- said insurance companies faced a payout of at least year-old boy when it went off. tor siorm damage. Af Rfnurn RrntherS1 WhenThe Boat Comes Irf Fall kills vineyard close to 500 tons he said. Susan Bartlett If he did wash his clothes, he could have spent some time in the house waiting for them to dry. In that case he would almost surely have been aware that Miss Armstrong's 16-month-old son, Gregory, was in his cot in the middle bedroom.

Murder weapon Sergeant Oldfield said they had discounted a knife, found near Victoria Park railway station, as being the murder weapon. The knife was found near the platform at about 10.30 p.m. on Monday night. Police believe the women were probably still alive at that time. Yesterday police were told the women spoke to a friend at about 9.50 that night, about 20 minutes after Miss Bartlett's brother Martin left their house.

He is the last known person to have seen them alive. Interstate police will today be asked to provide Information on all known sex offenders. ot grapes six weens iruiu picking were lost. Mr. Brown, senior.

A fisherman was killed when he fell 18 metres down a cliff near Portland who has worked at the tirtnpru far 45 vears. said vesterdav. 8-50 tonight oa ABC TV Rodney Malcolm Roberts, hailstones the size of ice anit hpflvv winds had 29. of Poland Street. Port buckled the winery's main land, was fishing at the base of a cliff at Cape Nelson before he began to climb a rope up the 320-foot cliff-face at about outdoor storage vuis, mm torn two brick chimneys fmm thr hnmestead.

Mr. Brown said the value 9.45 a.m. of the ost grapes alone svnnrlcrf $100,000. and But after climbing 18 metres he lost his grip would also cost the Jobs of and fell on to rocks. 4U picKers.

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