Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: War Grieving – Doctor’s Perspective

Name: Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: War Grieving – Doctor’s Perspective
Start: 2025-04-09T17:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-04-09T18:30:00+10:00
Location: BMI – Humffray Room

Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: War Grieving – Doctor’s Perspective

April 9 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Bar open at 5pm

$9.73 – $13.83

Humffray Room

War Grieving from a Doctor's Perspective

Grief is a natural response to loss. War Grief is complex. Ballarat’ s participation in WW1 was substantial: about 4000 men from Ballarat enlisted in World War One and approximately 800 died. How was this preserved from a medical perspective- then and now?

There are many facets for discussion. Actual recorded personal notes of 1914-1918 are not easy to find as it was not discussed and written down openly, it is only now our examination and interpretation of diaries and letters that show the extent of personal grief.

Doctors did not write too many notes in those days and certainly not for History. Certainly Ballarat today is full of public war grief in it’s memorials and statues.

Speaker: Dr Jean Douglas

Jean Douglas MBBS. FRACGP. Diploma Obstetrics (Auckland). Master of Medicine (Melbourne).

Jean has been a general practitioner working with her husband Dr Havea Tamanika in Bendigo for over forty years, retiring in 2015. After a stay in Melbourne, they moved to Ballarat three years ago to be close to family.
During her years in Bendigo, she was involved with various community agencies such as Breastscreen, CASA and Loddon Mallee Integrated Cancer Service, Bendigo Hospital Aged Care and St John of God Medical Advisory Board.

After retirement she has renewed her interest in History and Family research. She is a member of the Heritage and Archives Committee of Australian Medical Association Victoria.

She has researched the seventy-nine Victorian Doctors dying in World War 1 and World War 2 culminating in a Memorial Service in November at the AMA Headquarters in Parkville Melbourne in 2023.

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