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Burns surgeon Peter Haertsch honoured22 Feb 2024
After a lifetime of achievements and service to Concord Hospital; colleagues, staff, patients and family members of Peter Haertsch celebrated his career at a farewell event for the recently retired surgeon in February 2024
As one of the nation’s leading specialist reconstructive plastic surgeons, Associate Professor Haertsch was an integral part of Concord Hospital’s surgical staff and Burns Unit for over five decades.
“It is with very mixed emotions that I farewell my beloved Concord, as I've referred to it over so many decades,”
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60 Minutes: The Longest Run
May 06, 2012
Associate Professor Peter Haertsch was interviewed in 2012 as part of a 60 Minutes segment on the amazing story of Turia Pitt. She was caught in a bushfire whist competing in an ultra-marathon race through the Kimberley in Western Australia and suffered horrific burns to most of her body. She was air flown to Concord Hospital where she was under the care of Associate Professor Peter Haertsch.
May 06, 2012
Associate Professor Peter Haertsch was interviewed in 2012 as part of a 60 Minutes segment on the amazing story of Turia Pitt. She was caught in a bushfire whist competing in an ultra-marathon race through the Kimberley in Western Australia and suffered horrific burns to most of her body. She was air flown to Concord Hospital where she was under the care of Associate Professor Peter Haertsch.
"Prof, what will you take from this, i mean mentally, what have you learnt from this awful situation ???
Peter Haertsch: The indominatable spirit of the human being is what I would have learnt from this."
Peter Haertsch: The indominatable spirit of the human being is what I would have learnt from this."
