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Makes me see red
I read, today, an intersting article on the ABC website about some of the issues faced by rural and regional people who have breast cancer or are at high risk of developing it. I'm not as remote as th...
Agreed @Zoffiel. Would have liked to retire in a more rural location but a recent experience with country medicine changed it. My husband broke his humerus due to a bike accident over Christmas down at our most popular beachside town Victor Harbor. They had no doctor in the hospital when thousands were holidaying down there over Christmas and only 1 nurse in casualty over the holidays. All 8 beds in casualty became full , my husband lay next to a bloke being resuscitated after cardiac arrest and the single nurse was so busy I cleaned the cuts and abrasions off my husband. Whilst Victor is the grey capital of SA normally we felt it was god’s waiting room for other reasons.