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Longtime general surgeon Dr Margaret Beevors (left) is retiring in several weeks. She is with Goulburn Medical Clinic practice manager, Maree Stapleton. Picture by Louise Thrower.

Walk into Dr Margaret Beevors' practice room at Goulburn Medical Clinic and there's no sign of a computer anywhere. Subscribe now for unlimited access . Login or signup to continue reading $ 0 / $ NaN /year All articles from our website The digital version of Today's Paper Breaking news alerts direct to your inbox All articles from the other regional websites in your area Continue It's quite deliberate and the longtime surgeon knows she'll become "infamous" for the fact.



Instead she prefers talking to her patients. "I take a history of them, get to know them as a whole person and do a proper examination of the problem," Dr Beevors said. "I had so many patients say to me that doctors never looked them in the eye but were on the computer the whole time.

I was determined no one would say that about me. You have to look people in the eye, talk to them and listen." That brand of care typifies her 31-year tenure in Goulburn as a specialist surgeon, which ends in coming weeks with her retirement.

Dr Beevors was born and raised in Tamworth and at her father's encouragement, studied medicine at the University of Sydney. She worked as an intern, resident and registrar at several Sydney hospitals and in Tasmania. While undertaking a Royal Australian College of Surgeons Fellowship back at Hornsby Hospital, Goul.

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