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How exciting.... Today I went out with the flying doctors.... Arrived at the general aviation at 6.15am to be checked in and weighed.... Sat in the waiting room having a cuppa and snacks overlooking the airfield just to the back of cairns airport.... Watching the plane being checked over and refuelled.... Met the captain.... It's all very exciting....
Off to an aboriginal community in kowanyama.... Quick stop off at another community/town to let another part of the team off.... It's just like a commuters bus!! Spent some time in the clinic... Some very different presentations and ways to deal with them... For example A fish hook in the arm and bringing back a patient to cairns on the plane with us! Surreal! A lunchtime stroll through the village was a very welcoming experience!
The landing strips are just bits of tarmac in the middle of a field... And we just stroll on and off them to the plane!!
Such an exciting day and I would really love to dabble a bit in rural medicine at some point in my life... Met the flying dentist too today, a job for us both eh ;)
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