MCLENNAN, Roger
ISBN 978-1-923443-09-9
PAPERBACK
Connections
Short Stories from 1945-2025
This collection of short and longer stories captures personal observations over the last fifty years, during a life as a physician exposed to those whose lives were blighted by disease and misfortune. Optimism ingrained in childhood has survived the realities of humanity. The stories attempt to find the humor in our existence.
About the Author
ROGER MCLENNAN was born and raised in small mallee town Sea Lake in Northwest Victoria, educated in the State School then as a school boarder at Carey in Melbourne, he matriculated to medical school at Melbourne university as resident at Ormond College for seven years followed by residency as medical officer at St Vincents Hospital. This was followed by three years postgraduate training in U.K. Oxford and Cambridge. He returned to The Alfred hospital in 1975 as haematology-oncology trainee then consultant in public and private practice relating to malignant and coagulation diseases, he was called to establish the Haematology-Oncology unit in Geelong in 1979 which grew from a cupboard in the outpatients department to a major treatment and research centre. His third retirement at 78 years, the still writing author maintains an active interest in scientific, and molecular medicine studies and other interests canvassed in the stories.
