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Thankfully nothing happened. include car accidents (the number one response call), broken
limbs, heart attacks, strokes, burns, sheep shearing accidents,
complicated childbirth—even crocodile attacks!
I learned later that, God forbid, had I had an accident, there
would have been emergency treatment available. Even there,
Recently my husband Carl and I journeyed on the Indian
in the middle of nowhere.
Pacific train from Perth to Sydney for three nights. At stops in
Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill are Royal Flying Doctor Service Vis-
The charitable Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS)--celebrating
itor Centres, popular tourist destinations. We didn’t have time
90 years—is the first, largest and most comprehensive aerial
to visit them since it was a short train stop, but on a previous
medical organization in the world. Tourists and Australian
trip we were lucky to tour another one. (There are several open
residents alike can be treated throughout isolated parts of
for visits, including Alice Springs and Dubbo). It was intriguing
this vast country for serious illnesses and accidents. That can
to see what the RFDS was all about and learn of its history.

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