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In the Eye of the Beholder

出版	This Is My Story Pty Limited, 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bHSpzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋John and his wife Gwen had the happiest times of their lives when he worked his passage to England as a ship's doctor on 'The City of Madras'. It was a luxurious ship and the passengers clearly very rich. Before dinner, one of the passengers would buy a round of drinks in the bar for everyone. As John and Gwen didn't have any money they started arriving late for drinks. Obviously aware of their financial situation, the purser pulled John aside and said, "You must come down for drinks of an evening. When it's your turn to buy, I'll put it on a chit. Then, when everyone goes in for dinner, I'll tear the chit up." For a man somewhat dismissive of his own talents, John Slade did many remarkable things in his life and in the field of ophthalmology. His innovations changed the way medicine was practised both with exploratory surgical techniques and his revolutionary practice management. This warm, funny and eccentric Adelaide doctor was loved by his patients and adored by his family. Gwen was closely involved in the Adelaide arts scene where John managed to embarrass her by asking Patrick White, the fearsome Nobel Prize winning writer, "And so Pat, what do you do for a crust?" Long before anyone else, he travelled to the outback to conduct glaucoma screenings on hundreds of thousands of indigenous Australians and later extended his public health activities to India, Mexico and Papua New Guinea, demonstrating surgical techniques and performing sight-restoring surgery." -- book cover.