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Heart of the Red Centre: focus on what you love - Dr Angus Baumann

Destination Medicine Series Five
Apr 29, 2026

Dr Angus Baumann took a long, non-linear journey into medicine, that eventually led him to specialise in cardiology. Now based in Alice Springs with his family, and deeply entrenched in the...

Close-Knit Community Care in Finley; Training tomorrow’s Rural Doctors. Rural Generalist A/Prof Alam Yoosuff

Destination Medicine Series Five
Oct 30, 2025

From Sri Lanka to small town Finley NSW. That was the path Associate Professor Alam Yoosuff and his wife took about 20 years ago. And what a journey it’s been. From becoming entrenched in the...

Becoming a Book in Someone’s Library – A/Prof Deb Wilson’s Anaesthetics and Advocacy

Destination Medicine Series Five
Oct 15, 2025

From a farm in remote WA to becoming a rural anaesthetist in Tasmania – Deb Wilson’s path was anything but straight. She describes growing up in a family that prioritised education, reveals how a...

Dr Courtney-Anne Blackhall — Where everybody knows your name

Destination Medicine Series Five
Apr 30, 2025

Living where people know your name, and are keen to stop and chat, is high on Dr Courtney-Anne Blackhall’s priority list for life, as is having a broad-based career in this friendly environment. So...

City convert finds a remarkable career as a rural generalist – Dr Emma Jones

Destination Medicine Series Five
Apr 16, 2025

Growing up a city kid, it hadn’t dawned on Dr Emma Jones that she could and would dedicate herself to being a Rural Generalist. Then a conversation with other medical students about the benefits of...

Rescue missions and rural emergencies — Dr Jessica Martyn

Destination Medicine Series Five
Mar 5, 2025

Soaring to the heights of rural and remote medicine — and not just in RFDS planes — Dr Jessica Martyn has enjoyed an extremely varied and exciting career. Dr Martyn, who is now the Head of Unit at...

Dr Katie Barnes – first, female and flying high

Destination Medicine Series Five
Feb 5, 2025

From learning to winch out of a helicopter to providing critical care in the most demanding circumstances, Dr Katie Barnes spends her career undertaking risky retrieval missions for patients. It’s...

Dr Andrew Moreton – The only limit is your imagination

Destination Medicine Series Five
Nov 13, 2024

It’s hard to beat the regional doctor lifestyle. That’s according to veteran Dubbo GP Dr Andrew Moreton, who has dedicated his career to lifetime care in regional NSW. He’s had the opportunity to...

Flying high — Dr Scott Lewis’ journey home to regional SA

Destination Medicine Series Five
Oct 30, 2024

If you are planning to practice in an area the size of South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, it helps if you buy a plane and learn to fly. That’s how Dr Scott Lewis brings crucial GP and anaesthetist...

Dr John Floridis — Top End adventures in remote medicine

Destination Medicine Series Five
Oct 16, 2024

There is so much to be learned from the vastly experienced Dr John Floridis, a pharmacist-turned rural generalist and advanced emergency medicine trainee. As well as being a rural and remote...

A Tiny Town Triumph – Dr Emmy Hennell

Destination Medicine Series Five
Sep 18, 2024

Running her own practice in a “top ten” tiny town, Dr Emmy Hennell is a rural GP in a position to sit back and survey her great achievements, wrapped in the arms of a supportive community. From her...

Training a new generation in rural anaesthetics – Dr Robert Easther

Destination Medicine Series Five
Aug 21, 2024

An ambition to find a challenging position in life, where close teamwork and hands-on experience go together, has led Dr Robert Easter to an incredibly interesting and varied specialist career. In...

Growing our own - Dr Tau Loseli is grounded in Griffith

Destination Medicine Series Five
Jun 26, 2024

Dr Tau Loseli is living his dream: a (literally) hands-on medical practice in regional Australia which affords him to so much more time to spend with his wife and children. This son of Tongan...

Dr Peter McInerny — Prescribing purpose

Destination Medicine Series Five
Feb 21, 2024

From dreaming of being a pilot to becoming a rural doctor with an enormously diverse skill set, Dr Peter McInerny has had an inspiring medical journey. In this episode he discusses the pivotal...

The Accidental Generalist: Dr Kayla Mizzi, Manjimup WA

Destination Medicine Series Five
Nov 22, 2023

Born and bred a city kid, Dr Kayla Mizzi has transformed into a passionate rural generalist working in the tiny town of Manjimup in Western Australia’s far southwest. In this episode, we follow...

A/Prof Kerin Fielding: a life with many ingredients

Destination Medicine Series Five
Nov 8, 2023

It was in the midst of her idyllic country childhood that Associate Professor Kerin Fielding decided to become a doctor — particularly a surgeon. Now a Visiting Medical Officer at Wagga Wagga Base...

Dr Nadee Assiriyage – Medicine, Mates and Mojitos

Destination Medicine Series Five
Oct 11, 2023

Dr Nadee Assiriyage was always going to be a Doctor. As a little girl growing up in Sri Lanka she went everywhere with her own ‘doctor’s kit’ so she was always available to perform emergency...

Prof Tara Mackenzie — Breathing life into rural medicine

Destination Medicine Series Five
Sep 13, 2023

Professor Tara Mackenzie is an important, and influential, figure in the rural health ecosystem. As Associate Dean of Rural Health at UNSW, and a consultant respiratory physician with 17 years of...

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