Getting on with it: Aussie GP’s fate entwined with his small rural town 12 months after wildfires

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Getting on with it: Aussie GP’s fate entwined with his small rural town 12 months after wildfires

Zahra
Shahtahmasebi
Aus GP Jeff Lee in his caravan
Australian GP Jeff Lee, pictured in January 2020, spent last year seeing patients in the intimate space of his air-conditioned motorhome in Cobargo

Bush fires, a burned-down surgery and a global pandemic left Australian GP Jeff Lee weathering the storms of 2020 from his solar-powered motorhome. Reporter Zahra Shahtahmasebi catches up with Dr Lee, who was on the cover of our first issue in 2020

Bush fires had just rampaged through Cobargo when COVID-19 hit. The small New South Wales town had no local cases – the nearest cluster 400km away