Benita Johnson, super-efficient secretary of Tollgates Probus Club Batemans Bay, rang the Club's bell at 9.45am sharp to start the January meeting and launch the 2019 year.
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Following the usual reports and morning tea (including a new year's treat of pikelets, jam and cream) 71 members and eight visitors settled down to listen to the morning’s guest speaker, Dr Fiona Simpson.
Dr Simpson is a dietitian and is Clinical Specialist and Resident Dietitian at Royal North Shore Hospital and Senior Lecturer in Intensive Care at Sydney University.
Her topic was “Dietetics - where it has taken me” and was about the research she has done to find ways to feed patients suffering severe trauma such as a major stroke or brain injury and are not able to take food by mouth.
Other research being done by Dr Simpson includes the best way reintroduce a normal diet to those who have not had a proper diet for a long time, such as anorexics, and was the case with POWs.
