What will your legacy be?

Celebrating a long and proud history of supervising through the eyes of a recent learner

After 42 years serving his community in the aptly-named Victorian Alpine town of Mount Beauty, Dr Mark Zagorski has hung up his stethoscope and entered that next phase of life commonly referred to as “retirement”. 

While Mark was gleefully adding to his free-from-the-daily-grind bucket list, the team at Mount Beauty Medical Center nominated an exceptionally eloquent medical student to sum up the legacy of this passionate and prolific GP supervisor… Certainly an individual whose contribution is worth celebrating!

Working under Mark reminds us to bring personality into your work, reminds us that there’s a reason why we got into medicine, and it wasn’t to turn into robots once you get through the front door,  that there’s not a clear cut standard image of who a doctor is, and that there’s a role for showing some personality, coming to work with a bit of humor.And using that to inspire your patients to keep coming back and to inspire the people that work around you to keep going because there’s a lot of lows in medicine. And I think we’ve all got to be reminded every now and then to bring our own highs to work as well. And I think Mark does that exceptionally well, certainly inspires us to keep going and try and have a bit of optimism in what can be sometimes a really hard career.

Date reviewed: 21 October 2024

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