After graduation, I was an Intern and Senior RMO at St George Hospital. This was also the Undergraduate Clinical School I attended. In one’s SRMO year, the important decision on the future direction of your career has to be made. I considered a number of specialties in Internal Medicine. During this year, a fledging Nuclear Medicine Department was being set up by Dr Frank Broderick-a Physician & General Superintendent of the hospital, under the guidance of Assoc Prof Jim McRae, from the University of Sydney Medical School, who headed Professorial Medicine at the hospital, and the Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Dr John Morris, from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH). I became interested in this new Speciality and decided it was what I wanted to pursue.

I secured a Registrar in Nuclear Medicine position at RPAH, directed by Dr John Morris. As Nuclear  Medicine was a sub- speciality of Internal Medicine, training was supervised by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP). In more recent times, it is now dual certifiable by the RACP and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. I  participated in the renowned and excellent RPAH Physician Training Program. I obtained the MRACP in 1970, which subsequently became the FRACP. I was appointed an acting Staff Specialist from 1971 till I left for overseas training.

I was a Visiting Fellow & Scientist at the Argonne Cancer Research Hospital at the University of Chicago in 1972/3 for a year, on a NSW Cancer Council Grant. Returning from the USA, I was appointed a Staff Specialist in Nuclear Medicine at RPAH & later a Senior Staff Specialist. I was responsible for the Clinical functioning of the Department, the training of the Registrars & continuing education of the staff in general. During my time in this role there were over 30 Registrars trained, many of which also studied at overseas prestigious centres . Many became Heads of Departments in Sydney and Nationally. There were also many visiting domestic & overseas physicians & physicists who did varying degrees of training, over the years.

Over the years of the 70’s, 80’s & early 90’s, there was much ground breaking research in Nuclear Medicine at RAPH. It was a privilege to be an active part of it. It was regarded as the premier Nuclear Medicine Department in Australia. It gave me the opportunity to author or be an author on over 50 published papers in prestigious, peer reviewed journals, one book chapter & dozens of Abstracts of our presentations at many domestic & international scientific conferences.

I left RPAH in 1993, when the Hospital started to be overrun by bureaucrats, who were only interested in budgets & not patient care. I went into private practice at Burwood, where I still work half-time.