Bob Marley, syphilis and the power of letters: Professor Robert Parker on a decade leading doctors in the NT
Associate Professor Robert Parker has recently handed the AMA presidency to emergency physician Dr John Zorbas.
The story that has stuck with Associate Professor Robert Parker was told by his former boss Dr Alan Walker in 1989.
Dr Walker said that when he arrived in the NT more than two decades earlier, Aboriginal patients did not trust the hospital.
“They thought it was somewhere people went to die,” Professor Parker recalls.
“Dr Walker remembered the case of a young man with peritonitis from his appendix whose family came and took him away again.
