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Journalist Katherine Breen Kurucsev chats to local doctors about their lives and work.

The other life of a rural doctor - Angela Bettess
19/12/06  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Artist and GP, Angela Bettess It is possible that moving to the Northern Rivers in 1993 awakened the latent artist in more...
Practice and hospital mix is rural country practice at its best
20/06/06  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Jurriaan Beek with some of his patients: Melanie Rouvray with her one day old baby, Penny Bliesner with her three day ol more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Dan Ewald
20/10/04  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Dan pictured traversing the Patagonian icecap in 1994. Dan Ewald’s a bit of a greenie, a bit of a hip more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Chanchal Marik
20/08/04  Katherine Breen Kurucsev A lapsed Hindu from the teeming metropolis of India’s City of Joy and his North Yorkshire wife have made their lives in more...
The other (medical surgical assistant) life of a rural GP
18/12/03  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Richard Harvey was looking for something to supplement his income about seven years ago while he built up his new sports more...
It’s a GP registrar’s life - Meredith Betts
20/06/03  Katherine Breen Kurucsev The word is out in the GP registrar community in Sydney. For those coming to the area for their six month rural stints, more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Ted Allcock
20/04/03  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Doing some research on the net on this month’s subject of The Other Life, I found a recipe called “The Doctor’s Baked Ch more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Michael Douglas
19/02/03  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Michael Douglas pictured with some of his brood at the family’s mud brick home in Nashua. From left: Tara, Gabriel, Clar more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Hugh Ling Lee
17/12/02  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Hugh Ling and Barbara Lee pictured on their holidays in Canada last year. Stray dogs have always found a pl more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Vicki Slinko
20/06/02   Vicki Slinko with her father, Victor, and Folly FatDog. In the background are their very contented geese - Bob and Tray more...
The other life of a rural GP locum - Arik Bronstein
19/04/02   Arik Bronstein, a product of three countries, believes his soul to be Russian, his behaviour Italian. From his years in more...
A day in the life of a (flying) country doctor - Jane Reffell
20/02/02  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Jane Reffell has been flying to Ashford every six weeks or so since August as part of a government-funded Royal Flying D more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Fiona McCormick
20/01/02   Burringbar became Fiona McCormick’s adopted home from the minute she clapped eyes on the place. It was 1979 and she a more...
The other life of a (singing) rural doctor - Paul McGeown
20/10/01  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Paul McGeown is the Kiwi son of a mixed Catholic-Protestant marriage. Nothing particularly remarkable about that, more...
The life of a country female GP, circa 2001 - Sue Page
20/06/01  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Sue Page finds herself at a crossroads. The 40-year-old mother of t more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Jacqueline Boustany
20/04/01  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Working as a country doctor doesn’t leave much time for a life these days and Jacqueline Boustan more...
The other (spiritual) life of a rural doctor - Fiona Wagner
20/02/01  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Fiona Wagner with her four children at the wombat enclosure in Pioneer Plantation, Pottsville, just before Christmas. (L more...
The other life of a rural doctor (OA) - Bill Buddee
10/12/00  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Bill Buddee, with his son Phillip, relaxes in the gardens of Government House after he was awarded the OA on October 13. more...
The other life of a (newly retired) rural doctor - Gordon Calnan
20/10/00  Katherine Breen Kurucsev The paperwork is harder than the consulting. So says Dr Gordon Calnan, who retired on September 4 and has been wading th more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Suresh Rananavare
20/08/00  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Suresh and Alison Noble walking together in the Chincogan Fiesta run. Mullum GP, Suresh Rananavare, more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Liz Elliott
20/06/00   Liz Elliott Kingscliff GP, author and anti-globalisation campaigner Liz Elliott is fit, bright eyed, and passionate. more...
The other life of a rural doctor - John Ashwell
20/04/00  Katherine Breen Kurucsev John Ashwell first developed a taste for wine in his early 20s, so much so that he spent most of his holidays exploring more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Brian Pezzutti
20/02/00   Jose Ramos Horta, Nobel peace laureate, needed treatment at the hospital shortly after his triumphant return to East Tim more...
The other life of a (former) rural doctor - Jeff Buckland
10/12/99   Jeff Buckland’s becoming a bit of a computer nut was inevitable really. This is the man who, as a child, used to take ap more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Sandra Miles
20/10/99  Katherine Breen Kurucsev A love affair with Kenya that began at Brisbane’s World Expo in 1988, when the Kenyan pavillion captured Sandra Miles’s more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Ian Kingston
20/08/99  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Tall, slim, lightly tanned and a picture of health, backpacking around the world was the making of Ian Kingston, part-ti more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Geoff Meers
20/06/99  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Geoff is pictured with Mr and Mrs S.N. Goenka, principal teachers of Vipissana meditation, at the Dharmagiri, the main c more...
A day in the life of a rural doctor - Ruth Tinker
01/07/98  Katherine Breen Kurucsev This week is Family Doctor Week, which is focusing on the theme, "GPs, there for you". Reporter Katherine Breen Kurucs more...
A day in the life of a rural doctor - Trevor Tierney
20/04/98  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Reporter Katherine Breen Kurucsev spent 24 hours with rural GP, Trevor Tierney, as he went about his daily routine as th more...
The other life of an Aussie (cyber) doctor - Marleez
20/02/98  Katherine Breen Kurucsev It sometimes happens that a pen will run out right in the middle of an interview. That is why young print journalists ar more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Michael Pelmore
01/01/98  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Michael Pelmore, Mullum GP and singer-songwriter (etcetera) After-hours, Michael Pelmore is a singer, more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Harry Freeman
20/10/97  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Hippy psychiatrist, Harry Freeman on the heady days of the commune movement of the 70s, the common good, and a possible more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Malcolm Tester
20/04/97  Katherine Breen Kurucsev For Lismore ophthalmologist, Malcolm Tester, a holiday in Fiji about 15 years ago developed into an annual pilgrimage wi more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Rob Trigger
20/02/97  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Rob Trigger, sometime karate kid, dancer, surfer, Byron Bay GP From the age of 15 until about 35, Byron Bay GP, Rob T more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Senthil Vasan
01/01/97  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Senthil Vasan, GP and mayor of Casino He came to the North Coast in search of heat and found Casino. That was twenty more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Matea Gillies
01/01/97   Matea Gillies works in an environment people leave the cities for. In a lush valley with winding country roads and old A more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Brian Perry
01/01/97  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Brian Perry, Kyogle GP and part-time grazier Brisbane city boy, Brian Perry, first went bush in 1965 when he took up more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Richard Harvey
01/01/97  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Lismore GP and sportsman, Richard Harvey, is one of that rare breed who has managed to manoeuvre his career so that it p more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Jane Barker
01/01/97  Katherine Breen Kurucsev Perhaps it was her childhood experiences growing up in what was then known as Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), but Jane Barke more...
The other life of a rural doctor - Grant Miller
01/01/97   At the age of seven, like many children of his generation, Grant Miller was given his first butterfly net. And as a boy more...
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