‘A beautiful, kind man’: Dr McMaster. Picture supplied by Shannon Burns.
Tributes have flowed for Tweed paediatrician Dr David McMaster after his death in early January, while a petition to name a hospital ward in his honour has over 6,300 signatures.
Dr McMaster worked at the Tweed, Murwillumbah and John Flynn Private Hospitals for 23 years.
Shannon Burns, whose two children were the paediatrician’s patients, started a petition to name the paediatric ward at the new Tweed Valley Hospital after Dr McMaster.
‘I felt like we as a community really needed to do something to cherish his memory,’ said Ms Burns.