A DOCTOR who has spent her working life caring for T.B. patient’s has been paid a rare honor by them in return.
To mark Dr. Margaret Playle’s 21 years as Medical Superintendent of Greenvale Sanatorium, patients recently clubbed together and arranged that she sit for a portrait by Ernest Buckmaster.
It is on show now at Mr. Buckmaster’s exhibition in the Athenaeum Gallery.
When the exhibition closes the portrait will be hung in the concert hall of the sanatorium.
Dr. Playle, who graduated at Melbourne ‘ University and trained at Royal Melbourne Hospital, had two years at Janefield before taking her present job 21 years ago.
She said yesterday that the idea of having her portrait pointed arose from a gift to her from a group of entertainers at the sanatorium, in thanks for the hospitality they had received.
Patients asked if they might add to the gift.
Average length of each patient’s stay was from eight to 12 months, said Dr. Plavle.
They became firm friends with the medical staff and often came back to visit the sanatorium after discharge.
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