Dr Tony Rogers

After finishing medical school I went to the USA for my internship and 1^st year Obstetrics residency. I then came back to Monash University Medical School and taught Anatomy for 3 years before returning to the USA to complete 2^nd and 3^rd year obstetrics and Gynaecology residency program. While with the anatomy department, I was actively involved in the abortion reform movement.

On the way to London via Melbourne in 1977 to show family our first child, I ended up in Diamond Creek Medical Centre while firstly Dr Donald Cordner and then Dr Howard Goldenberg took 6-month sabbatical leave. (Howard and I have been friends since the first week of medical school.)

What with one thing and another I did not go on to London and have been practising in Diamond Creek ever since.

 At first we delivered many babies at Diamond Valley Community Hospital but as the hospital changed from a GP to a specialist hospital and eventually closed, as fewer patients had private insurance and age caught up with us Howard and I eventually stopped delivering.

When I joined Donald and Howard the practice had moved from the original Cordner home, where the Plaza Shopping Centre is now, across the railway line to Station St which the RDNS currently occupies. After a few years we built the centre we now occupy and in partnership with some pharmacists later extended and renovated the building so more consulting rooms became available.

Paul Jenkinson had joined our associateship before the renovations.  Now Donald, Howard and Paul have retired.

The practice management is administered by the Rogers family and provides a friendly, modern, accredited facility for the doctors who practice here.

As the practice has been in Diamond Creek since 1920 there have been several generational changes in both doctors and patients and this will continue.

Clinical Interests

These have changed as time passes and as I and my longer term patients grow older.

Health maintenance and disease prevention have always been important.

Earlier, obstetrics and gynaecology were a main focus but getting up at all hours, the closure of the local Diamond Valley Community Hospital and the reduction of insured patients all contributed to the interest becoming more office based.

Teaching part-time at Monash Department of Community Medicine and mentoring registrars as well as leading a push to make doctors aware of their own health needs occupied me for a few years in the late 1990s.

For ten years from 2000 I went each year to Ireland and had a working/golfing holiday usually working in little villages while Irish solo GPs took a break.

A special interest in early melanoma detection shared with Paul Jenkinson has lead to the opening of Molescreen Australia at 399 Riversdale Rd, East Hawthorn where dermoscopy and digital imaging are used.