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Fred Hollows Research Paper

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Frederick Cossom (Fred) Hollows was one of the greatest Australians who had ever lived. He is known to be one of the most caring men in history who always put others before himself to help the world be seen as a better place.
Fred Hollows was born on the 9th of April, 1929 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He was the second of four boys in his family and he attended North East Valley Primary School and Palmerston North Boy’s High School growing up. He did well academically but only when he was interested in the subject and he enjoyed the Protestant Boy’s Brigade, camping and tramping around the bush. When he was young he always pictured himself to become a missionary so he went to church enthusiastically and then sat a bible exam to find out he came first in the whole of New Zealand. …show more content…

The first letter told him that he failed a subject at Victoria University and the other one told him that since he’d come in the top 100 in New Zealand in his science subjects, the University of Otago in Dunedin would like to offer him a place in medicine. Without much time to decide as the plane was leaving that day, he had a massive decision. One of the students at the same camp reassured Fred about taking medicine, so he took it and sent a letter back to them on the same plane. After he completed his studies as an ophthalmologist, he then went on to enrol in Otago Medical School. In 1961 he travelled to Moorfields Eye Hospital in England to study ophthalmology only 4 years after in 1965 he moved to Australia. Fred then went on to work at a leading hospital in Sydney and in 5 years became the head of the ophthalmology

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