Doctor rejects being a hospital specialist to be a GP for homeless patients

Dr Andrew Davies calls his work ‘general practice on steroids’.
Dr Andrew Davies (left). Image: Facebook

As a youngster in Perth’s middle-class western suburbs, Dr Andrew Davies wanted to be “some kind of professor of medicine”.

“My mother was an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and I was brainwashed into the fact I had to be a specialist.

“I went through the hospital training system but I got sick of that.

“So I went into general practice because it was either that or architecture.”