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Roger Dunlop, much-loved general practitioner in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, has chronicled a life that encompasses the land, the medical profession, and not least his own iconic and eccentric family. In this lively and forthright memoir he describes a privileged 1920s childhood, his training in medicine at the University of Sydney and Sydney Hospital, his passions for cars, cricket, cats and women, and a family murder mystery. Two years spent as an army medical officer at Hiroshima led to a life-long interest investigating the effects of radiation on World War II veterans; life as a farmer fuelled his campaign to find a satisfactory policy to combat Johne's disease among farm animals. Often politically incorrect, and told with humour, affection and a determination never to bow to injustices, major or minor, from either side of the political spectrum, Roger Dunlop's account of his life is a delight.

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Roger Dunlop has had two vocations during his working life, medicine and farming. After serving as an army doctor with the Australian occupation forces in Japan after World War II, he practised medicine for a further 61 years in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. He began farming in 1959, firstly in the Hawkesbury area, then at Walcha in New England, and later on the East Cape of the North Island of New Zealand. Twice-married, Roger has three children, and after retiring from medicine and the land in 2006, he settled at Rose Bay, not far from his birthplace at Potts Point.

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