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When Haydn Clancy gave up teaching in Melbourne to start a new adventure, he didn’t think he would end up practising medicine in the Pilbara. No stranger to regional life,…

It was at her uncle’s medical graduation where Dr Cherelle Fitzclarence (then aged five) proudly declared she wanted to be a doctor. Decades on, Cherelle is living that dream, working…

Growing up in the farming community of Denbarker fostered the love of a rural lifestyle for physiotherapist Karen Rodgers-Smart. Starting her own clinic MoveSmart Physiotherapy in her new hometown of…

He’s been around the world but there’s no place like Wagin according to Dr Pieter Van Maarseveen. Pieter qualified as a general surgeon in his native Holland in 1985. Shortly…

With three generations of eye care professionals in his family, Peter Tidman said a career in optometry was inevitable. “My father Harold Tidman and mother Anna Tidman (née Lee) were…

With the advent of COVID-19 and the subsequent border closures, many remote Aboriginal communities such as Tjuntjuntjara were left without their usual fly-in fly-out (FIFO) medical staff. For most of…

With more than 30 years’ experience in the public and private health sectors, in clinical and administrative roles, Karen Bradley knows health. Originally training as a registered nurse, Karen completed…

Doctor Dean McKittrick is the rock ‘n’ roll doctor, delivering healthcare and tunes across the Kimberley region. Combining his passions for medicine and music, the Kimberley Medical Group GP registrar…

2022 will be a big year for RCSWA-Narrogin medical student Philip Cavanagh who, in addition to undertaking rural clinical school, also welcomed a new arrival! Phil and wife Jessica relocated to…

Most of us have worked from home at some stage or another over the past two years, but for Clare Austin and David Dimech of Project Physio, working from home…