‘I’m emotionally shattered’: GP on the front line of the bushfires
Many patients are dealing with short-term homelessness on top of the long-term impacts
Dr Bek Hoffman is a GP at the Mittagong Healthcare Centre in NSW.
The town and surrounding region have faced bushfire threat from the north, but on the weekend, fires swept through from the south, devastating communities in Wingello, Bundanoon and Kangaroo Valley.
Dr Hoffman is helping her patients deal with the aftermath. But even for her, the events have taken a toll.
Up until Saturday, our practice in Mittagong, in the Southern Highlands, had not been directly hit by the fires apart from some of our farming patients.
