Dr. Fraser, pictured here dressed to the nines, smiles as she arrives at her retirement dinner last Saturday night at the Kern Valley Healthcare District hospital.
A party was thrown last Saturday night to celebrate the years of service Dr. Eleanor Fraser devoted to the Kern Valley Hospital and members of the community.Fraser has read many a x-ray, CT scan, ultra sound, during her years with the district.
Even health problems didn't keep the dedicated professional from taking night calls and reading the test results for those sometimes in emergency situations.
Now the hospital has stepped into the 21st century, utilizing, radiologists in Bakersfield to read the digital graphs over a system recently put into place which allows the graphs to be sent via computer to an on call radiologist.
But her years with the district have made Fraser a well known name and face who will hopefully not be forgotten for her service to a rural community.
While accepting her numerous accolades, Fraser, who graduated from Stanford, gave the audience a treat by recounting numerous stories, which included surviving a plane crash.
Her rich history was well received by the audience and then Fraser told all that she would miss working them and taking care of the community. It was an end to an era as Fraser, who has spent considerable time with KVHD, was surrounded by the people she has worked with, friends, and even, Congressman Kevin McCarthy paid his respects to the dedicated radiologist.
Fraser showed she had a good sense of humor when she put the audience in stitches with a story about a GI exam which went very wrong and involved an exploding colostomy bag. "The best thing I was a doctor and didn't have to clean up the mess."
If you've been a resident of the community for any length of time and you've a broken bone or some other issue which brought you to the hospital, you've probably been helped, whether you or not, by Dr. Eleanor Fraser.
Thank you Dr. Fraser and we wish you the best...
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