What is it in a child’s life that sets them on their chosen path?
Dr John Court is an eminent paediatrician who became an internationally renowned specialist in the field of childhood diabetes.
Born in Melbourne, he had a working association with the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne that lasted over fifty years. He invented medical equipment, pioneered new treatment methods, challenged convention and fought tirelessly in the interests of adolescent patients. The philosophies that drove his life were shaped by a childhood lived in a very different world to that of today’s children, and here he looks back over his boyhood and remarkable career with humour and enormous insight. Whether he was being called upon to treat a young gorilla or standing vigil beside the bed of a dying child, Dr Court drew wisdom from every experience and in this episodic-style biography has drawn an evocative and entertaining picture of a remarkable life.