What a lovely read for a Sunday morning! Thanks.

Your remarks struck a chord with me Barry [and the family of one of my close girlfriend's sons, a 22 year old who undertook a life saving operation last year.

The majority of Australian/English Specialists would not operate on my girlfriend's son for a couple of reasons. The Indian Specialist was the only person who took a risk to save his life and used a different operating technique and process to ensure the operation was successful. One 'thing' went wrong which was not the fault of the Specialist, however 12 hours later, all great.

This had nothing to do with multiculturalism..it had to do with the fact that people of various races were all working in our medical system.

They were working it might be added, within the framework of the predominant host culture.