‘There are better doctors than me out here. I can only survive the dysfunction by coming and going’
Dr Kirsten Due on her life as a locum doctor in remote Australian communities.
Dr Kirsten Due knew all too well the desperate state of remote area health services. Here is her story.
The two-year-old boy is near respiratory failure as we slip and slide across the desert rocks in the old troop carrier which functions as a basic ambulance.
His tummy pumps in and out trying to suck air into his infected lungs.
The strain makes the soft tissues in his neck cave in with each gasp.
