A tribute to Australia’s longest practising doctor — Dr Neville Rothfield
He started treating patients when doctors first began prescribing a genuine wonder drug: penicillin
This is an edited version of an obituary written by Dr Olga Ostrowskyj, a women’s health physician at Broadmeadow Medical Practice in Newcastle, NSW and long-time colleague of Dr Rothfield.
Last month, more than 200 people filled St Peter’s Anglican Church in Hamilton, Newcastle, to farewell Dr Neville Rothfield, who may well have been Australia’s longest practising medical practitioner.
He passed away just one month shy of his 97th birthday.
He had retired two years earlier having practised medicine for 71 years. For some families, he had treated up to four generations of patients
