Richard Feidler

I grew up in a somewhat medical family.

My uncle and my grandfather were pharmacists and so I had some exposure to it.

My parents told me that it was when I was really young, I swallowed a piece of Lego accidentally trying to get two bricks apart and biting it off and ran into the living area saying, I'm going to die, I'm going to die.

And my great aunt at the time was a nurse and she reassured me and opened the encyclopedia and showed me a drawing of the digestive tract and that it was gonna come out the other end at some point.

And I was both horrified and relieved.

And mum and dad say that since then I was quite obsessed and they used to pull out the encyclopedias.

And then my grandmum lived near a vet a couple of doors up who had his surgical practice literally in the suburbs next to his house.

And he very kindly invited me one day or a few times actually to watch him operate.

And I think that sparked the interest.

No, never.

And I think if you did, you'd be in the wrong job.

I mean, certainly you can have weeks when you're on and it can just feel like a conveyor belt of one after another of problems.

Yeah.

But I don't think you ever get to the point.

I've never met a peri-retirement doctor who said, I've seen it all.

You never get to that point.

Yeah, I was almost 14 when we left.

So I went to all my primary school there and first year of high school.

So I remember quite a lot.

I'm sort of embarrassed to say in retrospect, but I suppose anyone from that generation, I was born into the system that