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Neil Orford
Associate Professor Neil Orford is a senior intensive care specialist based in Geelong, a clinical researcher at Deakin University and Monash University, and a Board Member of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand.
Opinion
Family
If you loved me, you wouldn’t leave me, Dad said. But I had no choice
My father and I did not talk of love or grief. But I did not doubt I was loved by this gentle, funny, intelligent man.
- by Neil Orford
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Motherhood
Mothers: Respect the strong, selfless women in your life
She asked me to promise to keep her alive so she could be a mother to her two little daughters. Two weeks later she died.
- by Neil Orford
Give death its due in a system focused on life
I had to identify myself as a clinician before the end-of-life care team rolled into action to help my dying father. Why is it so hard to be heard?
- by Neil Orford
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/by/neil-orford-p537mj