Fiona Wood

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Did anyone see the interview with Professor Fiona Woods on 'Talking Heads'
on ABC television tonight at 6:30? She cycles on what looked like a very
nice bike - the shots of her cleaning it showed carbon fibre bits
everywhere and other parts also looking spekky. She said clearly that
keeping a decent fitness level is a vital part of keeping up to the task
of the brilliant work she does with burns victims, and cycling is the best
non-impact exercise.

Cheers
Beavers

Yep, saw that. What an inspirational human being she is. I also caught her
on the radio this morning, the final part of an address she was giving at
some conference. I find her honest, down-to-earth humanity so refreshing,
especially at this time when so much of the media seems to have been
highjacked by those that peddle negative-spin dis-information.

I might offer to look after that bike for her when she's not riding it!
Looked very nice.

Graeme

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Beavers said:

Did anyone see the interview with Professor Fiona Woods on 'Talking Heads'
on ABC television tonight at 6:30? She cycles on what looked like a very
nice bike - the shots of her cleaning it showed carbon fibre bits everywhere
and other parts also looking spekky. She said clearly that keeping a decent
fitness level is a vital part of keeping up to the task of the brilliant
work she does with burns victims, and cycling is the best non-impact
exercise.

Cheers
Beavers

I heard (or rather, read) she rides a bianchi luna. I saw 2 lunas atop a little car on Saturday morning on the boulie, heading into the boathouse carpark.......

Grazza said:

"Beavers" wrote

Quoted message said:

Did anyone see the interview with Professor Fiona Woods on 'Talking
Heads' on ABC television tonight at 6:30?

Sadly no.

Quoted message said:

Yep, saw that. What an inspirational human being she is. I also
caught her on the radio this morning, the final part of an address
she was giving at some conference. I find her honest, down-to-earth
humanity so refreshing, especially at this time when so much of the
media seems to have been highjacked by those that peddle
negative-spin dis-information.

My wife worked with her when she was working in Burns unit at PMH. 8 months
preggers and still working at a run. I met her last year when she gave the
keynote speech at our Fire Brigade Officers meeting. Got to talk with her as
well. Honest, forthright, and absolutely charming.

Theo

Beavers said:

Did anyone see the interview with Professor Fiona Woods on

Nope, but I did see her using her title of australian of the year to
plug a pain killer recently in what I thought was a rather frivolous mode.
..

warrwych said:

I heard (or rather, read) she rides a bianchi luna. I saw 2 lunas atop a little car on Saturday morning on the boulie, heading into the boathouse carpark.......

Yeah, it was a Luna. Had that well used, well taken care of look, too. The shot in Aust story was of her cleaning bike, with bike upside down in front yard though, which I found odd. I mean, one doesn't flip a plastic Bianchi upside down like a K-Mart bike...

Cheers,

Suzy (using plastic in the non-derogatory sense)

On 2006-08-14, warrwych (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Beavers said:

Did anyone see the interview with Professor Fiona Woods on 'Talking
Heads'
on ABC television tonight at 6:30? She cycles on what looked like a
very
nice bike

....

Quoted message said:

I heard (or rather, read) she rides a bianchi luna. I saw 2 lunas atop
a little car on Saturday morning on the boulie, heading into the
boathouse carpark.......

Did you hijack the car and steal their lunas?

--
TimC
By day I'm an old-school UNIX systems administrator and IT
insultant. -- Carl Brewer on aus.bicycle

TimC said:

Quoted message said:

I heard (or rather, read) she rides a bianchi luna. I saw 2 lunas atop
a little car on Saturday morning on the boulie, heading into the
boathouse carpark.......

Did you hijack the car and steal their lunas?

--
TimC
By day I'm an old-school UNIX systems administrator and IT
insultant. -- Carl Brewer on aus.bicycle

I s'pose I could have hoiked one over each shoulder while I was riding mine
:p

Terryc said:

Beavers said:

Did anyone see the interview with Professor Fiona Woods on

Nope, but I did see her using her title of australian of the year to
plug a pain killer recently in what I thought was a rather frivolous mode.

That surprised and annoyed me too. The biggest surprise is that doctors
are allowed to endorse any form of medical product in an advertisement,
even if it does say "We paid her to say this" (or words to that effect)
down the bottom of the screen for half a second. There's another one on
TV at the moment that does the same (the competitor to what ever it is
that FW is peddling).

FW was (nominally) the doctor in charge of my son's case when he pulled
a cup of hot tea over himself a year or so ago. Thankfully my wife's
quick actions in getting him under a cold shower meant that FW wasn't
required to do anything more than look at him and say "He'll be fine."

Graeme

On 2006-08-15, Graeme Dods (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

FW was (nominally) the doctor in charge of my son's case when he pulled
a cup of hot tea over himself a year or so ago. Thankfully my wife's
quick actions in getting him under a cold shower meant that FW wasn't
required to do anything more than look at him and say "He'll be fine."

Cold shower schmower.

When I was a kid, sitting in the back of the car about to go off into
the forest to play with chainsaws and big whopping trees, the thermos
fell over, and the lid fell off, and all the hot coffee went over my
lap. "He'll be right!"

And I only just realised I could have sued the thermos makers.
Dammit.

--
TimC

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Graeme Dods said:

The biggest surprise is that doctors
are allowed to endorse any form of medical product in an advertisement,
even if it does say "We paid her to say this" (or words to that effect)
down the bottom of the screen for half a second. There's another one on
TV at the moment that does the same (the competitor to what ever it is
that FW is peddling).

Graeme

And have you seen similar adverts where they use actors who play/have played doctors or nurses in soapies to promote certain painkillers? It must be effective otherwise the pharma company would not pay for advertising time to show it. But what does it say about the intelligence of people who are swayed by such endorsements?

SteveA

SteveA said:

And have you seen similar adverts where they use actors who play/have played doctors or nurses in soapies to promote certain painkillers? It must be effective otherwise the pharma company would not pay for advertising time to show it. But what does it say about the intelligence of people who are swayed by such endorsements?

SteveA

or the intelligence of the advertising companies thinking we (ie audience, general public) would be swayed by such?

warrwych said:

or the intelligence of the advertising companies thinking we (ie audience, general public) would be swayed by such?

The advertising agency would have done their homework before the advert first aired. They would have had a pretty good idea it would work before any of us ever saw the adverts. I know some ad campaigns are very wide of the mark and bomb absolutely. Unfortunately, this one seems to be aimed at a certain target and I strongly suspect it hits that target. Of all the attributes of an advertising agency that could be questioned, I don't think this ad campaign would make me question their intelligence.

SteveA

SteveA said:

And have you seen similar adverts where they use actors who play/have
played doctors or nurses in soapies to promote certain painkillers? It
must be effective otherwise the pharma company would not pay for
advertising time to show it.

I'm not saying it isn't effective, just a bit ethically dubious for a
real doctor to be pimping a product. It's banned in many other
countries and for a while I thought it was here (why else would they
show the "Jim's a dentist, so we can't show his face, but he uses X
toothpaste/toothbrush" advert?). The recent spate of "buy this
pain-killer, if you don't you're a bad parent. Trust me, I'm a doctor."
type adverts just puts me off.

Quoted message said:

But what does it say about the
intelligence of people who are swayed by such endorsements?

The same could be asked for *all* adverts.

Graeme

warrwych said:

Beavers said:

Did anyone see the interview with Professor Fiona Woods on 'Talking
Heads'
on ABC television tonight at 6:30? She cycles on what looked like a
very
nice bike - the shots of her cleaning it showed carbon fibre bits
everywhere
and other parts also looking spekky. She said clearly that keeping a
decent
fitness level is a vital part of keeping up to the task of the
brilliant
work she does with burns victims, and cycling is the best non-impact
exercise.

Cheers
Beavers

I heard (or rather, read) she rides a bianchi luna. I saw 2 lunas atop
a little car on Saturday morning on the boulie, heading into the
boathouse carpark.......

--
warrwych

Apparently the Wood family are rather keen on Tr*athlons here in Perth.

Graeme Dods said:

Quoted message said:

Nope, but I did see her using her title of australian of the year to
plug a pain killer recently in what I thought was a rather frivolous mode.

That surprised and annoyed me too. The biggest surprise is that doctors
are allowed to endorse any form of medical product in an advertisement,

There is an enormous business in getting medical professionals to
"endorse/prescribe/sell" stuff.
If you ever want to watch your quack squirm or (just change the
subject), ask him where he/she got this --->
Our own relatively good quack once admitted that his sudden prescribing
of a new antibiotic was prompted by him being given a free weekend
medical conference.

And it is not just the drug companies either. Dairy companies seem
desperate to come up with uses for their waste. Alerted to this one when
the dentist started pushing something and I looked up the research.

Terryc said:

And it is not just the drug companies either. Dairy companies seem
desperate to come up with uses for their waste. Alerted to this one when
the dentist started pushing something and I looked up the research.

Funny you mention this - I have a tube of that stuff at home somewhere.
Vile stuff.

Mind providing a cite?

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SteveA said:

The advertising agency would have done their homework before the
advert first aired. They would have had a pretty good idea it would
work before any of us ever saw the adverts. I know some ad campaigns
are very wide of the mark and bomb absolutely. Unfortunately, this
one seems to be aimed at a certain target and I strongly suspect it
hits that target. Of all the attributes of an advertising agency
that could be questioned, I don't think this ad campaign would make
me question their intelligence.

Drugs make you feel really good, buy drugs!

Works for me. :-)

Theo

Theo Bekkers said:

Drugs make you feel really good, buy drugs!

Works for me. :-)

Apropos of nothing, I had a dinner the other night with some friends.
The theme? "Made in Burma". I had two options which I was seriously
considering: (1) rocking up with a plastic AK-47, or (2) rocking up with
little zip-lock bags filled with icing sugar.

I ended up putting on a silk tie instead. Yes, I wimped out.

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Terryc said:

Dairy companies seem
desperate to come up with uses for their waste. Alerted to this one when
the dentist started pushing something and I looked up the research.

Eh? Cow [censored] toothpaste? Whey mouthwash? Cow tail toothbrushes? The
mind boggles!

Graeme