My most memorable day? The sudden thud, the loud cry and looking down to see the baby lying at my feet

Dr Geoffrey Mullins at the old Dili National Hospital, East Timor.

As part of AusDoc’s 40th anniversary celebrations, we asked readers to describe their most memorable day in medicine.

Here, you can read about Dr Geoffrey Mullins’ comic attempts to connect with his fellow staff in East Timor in the months following the end of the Indonesian occupation.