Dr Reinhardt Jacobus de Wet

Dr Reinhardt J de Wet acquired his MBChB from Stellenbosch University in 1979. He then spent some time doing his national service, and qualified as an Anaesthesiologist in 1989, obtaining an MMed (Anaesth). Early in 1990 he entered private practice with Drs Allwright & Partners in the northern suburbs of Cape Town, for the next 22 years. During that period he became very skilled at Thoracic Anaesthesia and Regional Anaesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery. He subsequently obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Procedural Sedation in 2002 from the University of Stellenbosch. He is the currently the chairperson of SOSPOSA, the Society of Sedation Practitioners of SA. From 1997 - 2011, he worked extensively part-time in the United Kingdom (Nottingham Queens Medical Centre, The Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and The Royal Hospital Haslar in Portsmouth), in Canada (Moosejaw) and in Australia (Newcastle and Wagga Wagga General hospitals). In 2012 he relocated to Knysna where he now lives with his darling wife, Karin, a dietician; Oliver the Labradoodle and Katelien the cat, both KAWS acquisitions.