The apple fell close to the tree

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Since I wrote about Fred Hollows and his sight-saving cataract surgery, I’ve had a lot of ads promoting his foundation. Fred's son, Dr Cam Hollows, appears on the ads so I wondered if he was now working for the foundation but it seems not. I found an interesting news item about Cam from four years ago. He was/is a general practitioner in rural NSW. When floods hit the Coraki region, Cam set up a pop-up field hospital in the town. A helicopter took him to the town, along with medicines from his hospital and private equipment that he had in the back of his car. As he is a scuba instructor, he had an oxygen bottle and resuscitation equipment. He set up a bunk in front of the field hospital and looked after whoever needed help. One of the grateful patients was a man who almost died from a heart attack amid the flood disaster. Cam Hollows started out as a marine biologist but turned to medicine after contracting malaria in Papua New Guinea. From all I can gather, he doesn’t actually work for the Hollows Foundation. The photo is mine.