GP wants a sheep farmer: How medical training and love kept Dr Clare Hardie in the bush
GP obstetrician Dr Clare Hardie's experience in meeting her future husband in rural WA reflects fresh Aussie data.
When Dr Clare Hardie was in her third year of medical school, she fell in love with a sheep farmer.
At the time, she was doing a rural clinical placement in Narrogin in WA’s Wheatbelt region – a move that changed the course of her life and career.
“I met a fella in 2015 who is going to live rurally for the rest of his life, so I guess I’m stuck here,” she jokes, referring to her partner Brendan Hardie whom she married three years later.
But as a result she is now the only GP-obstetrician in the agricultural centre of 5000 people, working beside locum and junior doctors to keep the local maternity service running.
