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Murali, Paul Marks, the Ceylon connection by Quintus de Zylva Muththiah Muralitharan had a successful arthroscopic surgery at the Avenue Hospital in Melbourne on Monday August 16. Dr. David Young wanted more detailed pictures of Murali's painful shoulder. He gave a history of increasing pain in his right shoulder with difficulty in throwing the ball from the outfield. Dr. Paul Marks is the Managing Specialist Radiologist at the Avenue Hospital where Murali was to be operated upon. Murali showed intense surprise when Paul said "I have a Sri Lankan connection". He then went on to elaborate. He was born in Australia but his parents were from Ceylon - Dr. Geoffrey Marks and his wife Diana (nee Koch - from Kandy!) The association with Ceylon and Kandy brought a tear to Murali's eyes. Marks was a swimmer who represented Ceylon at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. Geoff Marks was well-known for having won The Two Mile Swim for nine (9) consecutive years. His brother Boris came second on all those occasions and this record has yet to be broken in Sri Lanka. Geoff Marks was also a popular life-saver. Marks also distinguished himself professionally as an eminent botanist. He worked for the Forest Commission and became an authority on the Eucalyptus forest. He lectured on plant pathology and won a scholarship to the Rockefeller Institute in America where he gained a doctorate. Dr. Geoff Marks later wrote a book on plant pathology in Victoria which was published shortly after his death in 1990. Marks attended Haileybury College in Keysborough (Melbourne) and graduated in Medicine from Monash University in 1990. He worked in Radiology at the Austin Hospital and later won two fellowships in musculo-skeletal radiology at San Francisco and in Perth. He had been the Managing Radiologist at the Ringwood Private Hospital prior to his appointment to The Avenue Hospital where most of the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group's surgery is performed. Here Dr. Paul Marks inserting a 16 gauge needle in to Murali's shoulder with an ultrasound probe guiding its pathway - to aspirate the ganglion cyst that had developed due to a tare in the labrum of the glenoid cavity. David Young with the assistance of Greg Hoy subsequently did a slap repair on the labrum with two anchors to hold it in place. |
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