‘There’s no normal skin, none at all’: Medicine gets hard when things go bad in remote Australia
Dr Damien Brown is confronted by a terribly burned patient but the man feels no pain.
Fresh from the medical front line in Angola, Mozambique and South Sudan, Dr Damien Brown assumed he could handle anything remote medicine in Australia could throw at him.
“It’s harder than working overseas,” he was told. “Because you don’t expect it to be.”
In the following story, he tells of being called to treat two men badly burnt in a fuel tank explosion on a Cape York property, while working for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Cairns.
This is an extract from his book Bush Doctor.
