The Wire

The small town of Wudinna on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula recently got a doctor at last, but the recently arrived Indian GP departed after one day. Are doctors adequately prepared for the culture of rural Australia and are they given enough support as they get to know the Australian health system? Alex Parry spoke to the doctors recruiting agency Recruit-A-Doc, to a South African doctor working in Toowoomba and to the Rural Doctors’ Association’s federal policy advisor Susan Stratigoff.