Obstetrician famed for delivering a baby on live TV dies aged 69
The death of the renowned media doctor and IVF pioneer Dr Ric Porter was reported on Nine News.
Dr Ric Porter, a prominent obstetrician and IVF doctor who performed the first caesarean on Australian live television, has died aged 69.
The fertility expert and media personality died of pancreatic cancer, Channel Nine reported on Saturday.
Known to television viewers as Dr Ric Gordon, first as presenter of Nine’s health lifestyle program, Good Medicine throughout the 1990s, and then as resident medical expert on Today.
One of his most memorable TV moments came in 2003, when he performed a caesarean as Today host Tracy Grimshaw reported from inside the operating theatre at Sydney’s North Shore Private Hospital.
