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About Denis Mackey
- Denis Peter Mackey (8 May 1934 – 8 January 1990) was an Australian medical practitioner. Mackey was born at Richmond in Melbourne to commercial traveller Alphonsus Denis Mackey and Dulcie Edith, née Reid.
- He attended Catholic schools and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne.
- He married Noelle Lucy Mooney on 30 December 1959 at Middle Park before moving to Tasmania in 1960, where Mackey found work at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
- In 1963 he developed his own practice at Lindisfarne.
- He joined the General Practitioners' Society in 1973, serving as national vice-president from 1976 to 1979 and president from 1979 to 1981.
- He was editor of the Australian GP from 1974 to 1978 and assistant editor from 1978 to 1980.Mackey was a strong supporter of private healthcare, opposing the introduction of Medibank and Medicare.
- An opponent of community health centres, he toured the United States in 1977 speaking against socialised medicine.
- He refused money from both Medicare and the Department of Veterans' Affairs, requiring his patients to make their own claims.
- In 1985 Mackey claimed that repetitive strain injury was being used by workers to claim unwarranted sick days, prompting a dispute with the Tasmanian Trades & Labor Council and the Federated Clerks' Union.
- Despite his vehemency he treated many patients for free.
- He died in 1990 in Hobart, survived by his wife and their four sons.
- The University of Tasmania awards an annual scholarship in his name.
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