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#129 From Boots to Scrubs - Chloe's Coo-ee to Country Girls
5th medical student Chloe Campbell is urging young rural women to consider a career in medicine
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A flight like no other
“I really didn’t want to put them out, so I told them it's all good, I'm a platinum flyer so I can sort the flight out myself. They pretty quickly told me I would be flying with the Flying Doctor.”
Back to the outback from Bankstown
New Non-Emergency Patient Transport service takes off from Bankstown.
A nurse's life in the sky
From finding a career to finding love, in her 20 years with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) Nurse Manager Justine Powell has quite a few interesting tales to tell.
The little-known history of the $20 note
There's a good change you've got a $20 in your wallet right now, but not many know the real story behind the man on the red note. His name is John Flynn and it all started back in 1917.
Terence completes the cycle
“I had a massive, sudden, incredible pain in the back of my head. I knew that something had happened.”
Bourke and Wills territory safe at last
Where once there was nothing, the RFDS Cooper Basin Clinic now offers locals everything ‘from dental to mental’ health care
Outback vaccinations underway
Government and outback communities placing trust in RFDS to quell pandemic
On hand for baby Henry
Ange MacAlpine’s young son had a serious illness, and needed to get skilled medical attention - fast
From fireworks to farming
Witnessing emergencies in remote places inspired Liz Hamilton to leave a Gift in her Will
Outback Car Trek changing lives in the outback
After it was postponed last year due to COVID, this year’s trek hit the road with all cylinders firing and involved 203 people in 87 vehicles.
From patient to RFDS apprentice engineer
As a baby Sam Bruce was rushed to Brisbane, now he's on the other side of the spectrum, working as an apprentice for the RFDS (Queensland Section).
RFDS dental services expand into the Pilbara
Newman and South Hedland residents now have access to local and quality dental services provided by the Flying Doctor in Western Australia.
Resource sector digs deep for the Flying Doctor
Western Australia's resource industry dug deep to support the Flying Doctor on the eve of Diggers and Dealers in Kalgoorlie at a sundowner event hosted by drilling specialists Topdrill.
