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Douglas  Brown

Douglas Brown

Australia

Retired G.P. after 37 years in group general practice in a country city of 26,000. Initial special interest paediatrics, latterly geriatrics. 15 years' anaesthetics; 2,500 deliveries. 20 years' Community Health Service development from steering committee to chairperson of the Board. Committee member and chair of the local Mentally Retarded Children's Society, involved in establishing a hostel for rural children attending the regional Special School. 15 years Medical Officer to the local Gaol. 3 years' G.P. manager of the Limestone Coast Division of G.P.'s project into the prevention of falls and falls injury in the regional elderly over 65.


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Project Report 3 February 2004

Do leaves have to fall in their Autumn? A falls prevention strategy in action in the south east of South Australia

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