Thirteen Formative Years



LIVING IN JOHANNESBURG – Bobby’s work: Bobby was a doctor. We migrated to South Africa so that he could take up the position of Principal Anaesthetist at the Johannesburg General Hospital, but after little more than a year in the role, Bobby moved into private practice. He and Gerry Hochschild set up what was to become “one of the biggest and most successful anaesthetic practices in Johannesburg.” This is Bobby’s letterhead notepaper (as well as Bobby’s neat and highly recognisable signature), which shows that the practice’s “rooms” were in 309 …