NEVER GIVE UP: Doctoring in a firestorm’s aftermath

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NEVER GIVE UP: Doctoring in a firestorm’s aftermath

Zahra

Shahtahmasebi

zshahtahmasebi@nzdoctor.co.nz

Monday 3 February 2020, 10:38 AM

GP Jeffrey Lee now practises from his well-appointed motorhome, which he says is larger than most consulting rooms and works surprisingly well as a surgery

An Australian GP relocated from his burnt-out surgery to a motorhome so he could keep seeing patients. He tells Zahra Shahtahmasebi about his experience of the bush fires

When one of the New South Wales bush fires rushed through the small town of Cobargo on New Year’s Eve, local GP Jeffrey Lee and his wife just managed

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