The Flying Doctor

On arriving on his remote island property, Peter Woolford became acutely unwell and collapsed with a stroke,  paralysed on the kitchen floor and unable to reach the landline to call for help.

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Coby Foster, at 25 weeks pregnant travelled from Brisbane to Melbourne for a friend's social event, but it all went awry when she went into premature labour and Jenson arrived four months too early.

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Vanessa Latham and Lesley Harvey from the RFDS Broken Hill Wellness Place talk about supporting locals through challenges of drought, loss, trauma -- and how their use of play therapy is helping kids who really need it.

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Brenda Purvis tells of the harrowing day when her youngest child collapsed and then started vomiting blood after being bitten by an Eastern Brown Snake. Fast and correct medical procedures saved Jack's life, and there is much to learn and remember based on this story.

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Desert sand hills and red stony downs of South Australia. A vast remote cattle station in one of the harshest parts of Australia. Peter Nunn is involved in an horrific accident that it is amazing anyone walked away from...

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This podcast episode is a follow-up interview with Danielle Horton after our first interview Young mother, dialysis, and the search for a kidney. Organ transplant is not for the faint-of-heart and this second interview follows on from the much awaited phone call that a kidney that was desperately needed, had become available....

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Dr Sally Edmonds talks of the RFDS response to the severe boat accident that occurred in May 2022 in the remote location of Horizontal Falls - where there was no access by road and some 26 patients had to be transported to hospital.

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Earlier this year Chris and Betty Katsogiannis received a call from their son Nicholas, who was in remote NT and had a post-operative bleed that he was unable to quell. This started a desperate dash to Tennant Creek hospital, many hours away.

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Phil Eley has thousands of hours of motorbike touring under his belt, in the USA, Europe, South America and Australia -- but a stretch of the Birdsville Track in remote South Australia sent him cartwheeling and the man who is normally in control of his life, found himself having to rely totally on others.

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Rachel and Blake Bartlett were many months into a wonderful journey of travelling around Australia with their three kids in a caravan. While snorkelling on the coast at Coral Bay, everything changed when their 10 year old son Jackson was bitten by a shark...

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