GP grounded after decades of flying his plane to see patients
Dr David Cooke says he will keep seeing his rural patients by ground or air.
GP Dr David Cooke has a useful trick for a country doctor: he can fly.
After three decades of flying his own plane to serve a small NSW town, however, he finds himself lacking an airstrip.
The 83-year-old is now searching for a farmer willing to offer a field as a landing strip so he can keep treating patients in the town of South West Rocks.
In the meantime, he is driving there and back twice a week from Port Macquarie, which takes 75 minutes each way.
