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George Montario Bedbrook Kt OBE Ostj MS(Melb) Hon MD(W A) Hon FRCS(Ed) Hon Dtech(Curtin) FRCS FRACS DPRM(Syd) Hon FCRM Paraplegia 30 (1992) 145-147 © 1992 International Medical Society of Paraplegia Obituary George Montario Bedbrook Kt OBE OStJ MS(Melb) Hon MD(W A) Hon FRCS(Ed) Hon DTech(Curtin) FRCS FRACS DPRM(Syd) Hon FCRM family was supported by the Repatriation Department though the allowance they re­ ceived was indeed a very small one. Both boys were educated at the University High School in Melbourne. Sir George went on to enter the Medical School of the University of Melbourne, achieving honours through­ out his course of study and graduating MB, BS in 1944. He served as an RMO at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and followed this as a lecturer in anatomy at the Univer­ sity Medical School. It was at this time that he supplemented his income as a lecturer by assisting the senior surgeons on the staff of Royal Mel­ bourne Hospital and learnt a great deal from them. Whilst working in the wards there he first met his wife Jess and they were married in 1946. By 1950 he had acquired a Master of Surgery degree and Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Post­ graduate overseas experience was expected of young surgeons then as it is now. George and Jess arrived in England in 1951 with the George Montario Bedbrook was born on 8 first 2 of their children (3 more were to November 1921 in Coburg, a suburb of follow). Melbourne in Victoria. He was the younger Appointments were held at the Royal of identical twin brothers, his elder brother National Orthopaedic Hospital and the the Reverend Frederick Bedbrook being a Croydon Group of Hospitals with the FRCS canon of the Anglican Church in Mel­ of England being taken and passed in his bourne. first year in the United Kingdom. During His father was an ex-serviceman in the this period his friendship commenced with Australian forces in the first world war JIP James of Edinburgh (later Professor), having served for a period of 4 years Ross Nicholson of New Zealand, Sir Henry overseas in Palestine, Gallipoli and France. (Nobby) Osmonde Clarke of the London Following his return to Australia at the end Hospital and Oswestry, and Ivor Robertson of the war he suffered from very poor health of St Bartholemew's Hospital who stimul­ as a result of illness contracted during his ated his interests in orthopaedic surgery. It war service and eventually died leaving his was at this time that he first encountered Sir widow and 2 young sons aged 10 years. Ludwig Guttmann at Stoke Mandeville and The family home was a humble but loving his early exposure to the management of one and they were regular members at the spinal injury at this world famous centre local Anglican church with both boys being may well have had influence on his future members of the choir from an early age. The professional work. 146 Griffiths The family returned to Australia in 1953 which he edited and which became standard with George Bedbrook being appointed to reference works in many countries. the Orthopaedic Department of Royal He served as president of the Australian Perth Hospital and in private consultative Orthopaedic Association in 1977 having practice with RD McKellar Hall, later pres­ received the medal of honour (the Betts' ident of the Australian Orthopaedic Associ­ Medal) in 1972. He was president of the ation. It was in 1954 that he was asked to International Medical Society of Paraplegia take over management of spinal injury (1981/84) and he received the Society's patients and at that time there was no medal in 1978. organised service as he soon discovered. His concern for his patients went beyond This was to be the start of his concern for the hospital walls, into the development of the spinal disabled which became the centre the Paraplegic/Quadriplegic Association of of the whole of his future professional life . Western Australia and later the Quadriple­ The first spinal injury centre in Australia gic Centre for residence and employment of commenced in Perth in 1954, based at the the disabled, which opened its doors in Royal Perth Rehabilitation Hospital. All 1969. He was honorary medical officer to spinal injury cases were directed to him and both these organisations taking a very keen received excellent care despite the poor interest in their development and offering a ward accommodation offered to him ini­ strong guiding hand when necessary. To tially. His determination to offer these those who came under his care he gave all handicapped citizens a better life resulted in his expertise, his wisdom and his humanity. the development of a modern 40 bed purp­ He knew them all as individual persons with ose built spinal injury department which problems which they could discuss with him opened its doors in 1962 and it was from this freely, all of which received his earnest unit that his greatest work was done in consideration and all the help he could management of the acute care of spinal cord offer. His devotion to the cause of the injury and the necessary rehabilitation that disabled in the community was not confined followed. He followed Sir Ludwig Gutt­ to spinal cord injuries as he served as vice mann's example of introducing sport as a chairman (1975-83) of the National Advis­ means of rehabilitation and there followed ory Council for the Handicapped, and as the first Commonwealth Paraplegic Games vice president (1970-80) of the Australian in Perth in 1963 in recognition of which he Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled. was made an OBE. He had a strong Christian faith and also He was director of the Spinal Cord Injury served as a member of the Anglican diocese Unit from 1954 until 1972 when he was (1956-76). followed by Ellis Griffiths, remaining him­ In his last few years of semi retirement he self the senior surgeon to the unit until 1986 was busily engaged in 2 projects, the Para­ when he became emeritus. He was an plegic Benefit Fund for those disabled and excellent organiser and insisted upon de­ in need, and the Prevention of Spinal Cord tailed neurological assessment of his pati­ Injuries Programme, with lecturers spread­ ents from the first hour following their ing the message of prevention throughout admission to hospital. He established a the state of Western Australia. The spinal sound nursing regime and eradicated unit at Royal Perth Rehabilitation Hospital chronic pressure sores and urinary infection. was renamed in his honour as the Sir He gathered around him a group of dedic­ George Bedbrook Spinal Unit on his retire­ ated specialists in the multidisciplinary care ment from the staff of Royal Perth Hospital. of the complications of spinal cord injury He received many academic honours in his with an excellent research programme into lifetime and was created a Knight Bachelor pathological changes in the spinal cord in 1978. being developed by his colleague Professor His academic training prior to 1954 pre­ Byron Kakulas of the Neuropathology De­ pared him for his life's work, the care and partment. Over the years he published over rehabilitation of the disabled in the com­ 117 scientific papers including 2 books munity. He had a strong and forceful Obituary 147 personality, and was a natural leader who more than 30 of his old patients in wheel­ brooked no opposition in seeking nothing chairs who came to pay their last respects to but the best for his patients. His unit a great man. became well known internationally, involv­ He was a true pioneer and his impact on ing 65 young postgraduate physicians and spinal injury care and rehabilitation not only surgeons from countries as far apart as in Australia but worldwide was indeed a USA, Israel, India, and Japan who bene­ very great one and set the pattern which fited greatly from the period of study they others followed. undertook at the centre in Perth. After many years of professional associ­ His wife, Jess, died in 1989 and after 43 ation and close friendship the writer will years of marriage his loneliness was very miss him greatly. apparent. His last year was one of ill health He is survived by 5 children and 15 and he died peacefully on the 6th October grandchildren to whom we extend our 1991. deepest sympathy in their sad loss. A service of thanksgiving for the life of George Montario Bedbrook was held at 2.30 pm on 10 October 1991 at St George's Anglican Cathedral in Perth. It was E R GRIFFITHS OBE attended by the governor, state dignatories Emeritus and Consultant Orthopaedic Sur­ and more than 500 of his friends including geon .
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