"All changed, changed utterly": recollections of 40 years in general practice.

MedicalOne, Elwood, VIC. Eva Szego, MB BS, General Practitioner. Reprints will not be available from the author. Correspondence: Dr Eva Szego, MedicalOne, 61–69 Brighton Road, Elwood, VIC 3184. [email protected] The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 5 July 2004 181 1 21-22 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2004 www.mja.com.au The Profession – 90th Anniversary And so I began my career just as the sexual re poised to change society forever. One of my first patients was a migrant from Ea who was raising two children as a single mother in th the safety net of generous social security benefits. S her own abortion with a knitting needle when I cou t w sch ne I as towards the end of 1963 — my final year of medical ool at the University of Melbourne — when I read about the w contraceptive method in the Medical Journal of Australia. On our last day, after the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology bade us farewell, I ran after him and asked: “Professor Townsend, what do you think about the Pill?” “It’s good stuff,’’ he replied, with a smile and a wink. volution was