Fifty-two years ago, in January 1974, Alex Lewis was taking her first ‘daunting’ steps as an enrolled nurse. She was an 18-year-old trainee at the Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, where she had been a patient herself a year earlier. Upon learning that Alex wanted to be a nurse, the nurses who were looking after her cheered her on.
‘They got Matron Bullwinkel to come round and have a chat.’
