Dr Darrel Felix Born 20.11.1929, Colombo, Sri Lanka Died 14.10.2018, Sydney, Australia Passed away peacefully. Loving husband of Brinda, father of Jacqueline and Andrew, grandfather of Hannah. Brother of Dawn, Oenone (dec), Willie, Eric, Anne, Rosaine and Lester. A private funeral will take place. Please respect the privacy of the family during this time. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to a charity of your choice. He touched many lives and will be sadly missed. GREGORY & CARR Traditional Funeral Directors Strathfield 9746 9666 Published in The Sydney Morning Herald on Oct. 16, 2018
BA's note: My grateful thanks to Sanath Lamabadusuriya and Nihal Amerasekera for informing me.
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In my retirement, not a day passes without a feeling of gratitude for our clinical teachers. In that firmament one of the brightest stars is Darrell Weinman. His ward classes were packed to the rafters with students. He imparted his knowledge freely and with great finesse. He was such a fine Neurosurgeon. I am saddened he never wanted or never had the opportunity to pursue his love for Neurosurgery in Australia. In that era of big egos he was kind and showed great humility. My generation of doctors will all remember him with much affection and esteem.
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It is heart warming to read the condolences written by his patients. It seems like he was as good a GP as he was a Neurosurgeon, always sympathetic, kind, helpful and courteous to the very end. I feel privileged to have been one of his students. May God Bless Him
DeleteI will always remember him as a fine teacher, easily among the best , he also imparted professionalism of the highest order, starting with attire.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was an intern I referred a case to him and had forgotten about it as a few months passed , only to be surprised to receive a detailed letter from him about the patient, and thanking me for the referral.
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I,too remember,Dr Weiman as doctor with a "Posh Accent"and a free flow and fluidy of the English.As stated by two colleagues,his lectures were mesmerizing.
ReplyDeleteI,remember assisting him in an emergency case,where an
extradural haemorrhage was suspected.That was the bygone,era,where history,clinical examination were the order of the day(no CT&MRI scans)Good old X-Ray did the job of the day.He was very kind and explained the pros and cons of the procedure.How the Surgeon felt the penetration of the skull bone&the external dura to get into the extradural space.The operation was carried out in the early hours and I had to go to the hostel and change myself to attend the routine ward rounds.
As mentioned by ND,it was a mammoth task for a Sri-Lankan erode into the hierarchy of the Medical profession any other place in the world during the bygone.I am aware,1960 batch Nadanachandran is a NeuroSurgeon in Melbourne.He was a good friend of mine and was in Bloemfontein.
May he enjoy the bliss of eternal life.
Agree with you Sumsthi the old and trusted clinical skills are didspprsting .I know donrbody who underwent a hernis repair hete in UK on the basis of an ultrasound. No clincskc examination eas BV done and he didn't have a hernia but had a cyst!
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DeleteHi Sumathipala. That was an interesting anecdote about those uncertain but happy times in the faculty. Incidentally Dr WEINMAN played cricket for St. Peter’s same era as HIK Fernando and Tony Don Michael. DW lived a full life into his 90s and worked in a practice with his wife Brinda. They never returned to SL since they left
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ReplyDeleteYou mentioned about T Don Michael and my memories were awaken about his departure to Persia(Now Iran) as a Physician for King Shah.I am not sure whether that was correct.I remember HIK as a wicket keeper batsman for University, and Ceylon.It is nice to see a couple of historian in our batch.I am puzzled as to why our regular contributors from the fair sex,remain silent.
Where have all the flowers gone?
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DeleteWe,certainly don't like the withering away of the beautiful flowers of LDC,Colombo.Look!MNDP(Nimal),from 1963 batch and a Bloemite has paid his respect via his social media.
Sumathi
ReplyDeleteI have only a vague recollection of Tony Don Michael. He may have been in Iran as you say but may be later moved to California as a Cardiologist.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to send my deepest sympathies to the family of Darrel Weinman
who was Sri Lanka's greatest Neurologist without a doubt.
He was a caring and brilliant surgeon and teacher.
May God Rest His Soul
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Apologies for my belated comment. I have been away but back refreshed and rejuvenated by the wonderful architecture and music of Salzburg and Vienna.
ReplyDeleteI had several emails from different sources about the passing away of Dr Darrel Weinman. As other colleagues have commented, he was talented.kind and inspirational as a Teacher. In our pre-power point era, he set the tone for really professional presentations with the use of beautiful slides and I remember very distinctly his use of a "tick-batta" device to indicate to the projectionist that the next slide should come. Most people in that time called out "next slide please", but not Dr Wweinman, who just pressed the "batta" which made a "tick" sound. He was expert at getting the essence of his message across in a way that the audience comprehended and retained the information he presented, always the hall mark of a good teacher.
His departure to Australia was a great loss to Sri Lanka and as ND said, it is a great pity that he could not continue there as a Neurosurgeon, but it is heartening to learn that he was much loved and appreciated by his patients as a GP.
Dr Weinman was yet another great Teacher we were so privileged to have as Medical Students.
Hope you took the sound of music tour in Salzburg, and visited the coffee shops and had coffee chocolates and strudel, visited the Musicvarein in Vienna. Vienna is quite a pretty city.
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I do not know why he did not get to practice neurosurgery in Australia, which certainly was their loss.
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Indra!,
DeleteI am sure you are aware that Aussies too shunned away highly skilled doctors from Asian sub-continent and preferred doctors from British-Isles,South Africa.Some who migrated ended up in their outback.Only a handful were successful in becoming Consultants in so called teaching hospitals.
Sumathi
Dr Weinman was one of my heroes. My outlook and behaviour in my own professional life was greatly influenced by my knowledge of him. When he left Sri Lanka it was a painful blow. Sadly I never heard much about his life after that. Now I salute his memory and bow my head in honour. Zita
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ReplyDeleteI was greatly saddened to hear of the death of Darrell Weinman who was my teacher during my time at the medical college in Colombo. He was an inspiring teacher and an excellent teacher and a fine operator. He first drew my interest to William Osler by lending me his books. I spent a month with him as I so enjoyed been taught by him. He provided me with an
excellent reference when I moved on to Kings College Hospital medical school but alas was delayed on the bus getting to Kings, Maudsley,Guys Neurosurgical unit while traveling on a bus along the Old Kent Road. Otherwise I could have ended doing Neurosurgery! May his soul Rest In Peace!
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