I experienced working with a Dr Eggleston in Port Hedland WA when I was a
student nurse. This man was not very popular with midwives. He had an
appalling attitude to women. I remember one incidence in particular when he
openly defamed a midwife who was managing a women's health centre, which was
badly needed in a population which had large groups of muslin & aboriginal
women. As most people know it is culturally inappropriate for these women
to be attended by males. This midwife however did not sit back and take it.
She approached a lawyer and had a letter drafted demanding a public appology
or she would take Dr Eggleston to court for defamation. He back tracked so
fast it wasn't funny and before the end of the week had a apology put in the
local paper. The line he used to discredit this midwife was to say she was
not qualified to practice women's health. So people if this is the same man
I have experienced I wouldn't waste your time.
Megan Jones
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Subject: Re: Independent Midwives - So who is Senator Eggleston???????????
> In a message dated 20/07/01 10:34:30 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> << For interest these are his Qualifications listed on the website above
for
> his
> biographical details.
>
> MRCS, LRCP, DOBst, RCOG, DRACOG, FRACOP,
> >>
> Oopps, made a mistake in the letters behind his name. FRACOP - should read
> FRACGP !!
>
> I'd hate to misrepresnt him. Hell knows, he might sue me !!
>
> Yours in birth,
> Tina Pettigrew
> Birthworks
> Independent CBE and aspiring B.Mid Midwife.
> Convenor, Aust B. Mid Student Collective.
>
> " As we trust the flowers to open to new life
> - So we can trust birth"
> Harriette Hartigan.
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