‘His eyes were staring from behind a mask of dust’: My day as a flying doctor deep underground
Dr Elizabeth Green recounts her extraordinary career as a GP, flying doctor and 24 years as a paediatrician in her memoir.
Dr Elizabeth Green’s memoir is called No Time for Makeup.
Here the GP and Flying Doctor tells how she found herself clinging to a metal ladder treating a miner trapped by a rockfall deep underground.
As rocks tumbled around them, it was the injured patient who ended up reassuring the doctor that they were both going to come out alive.
I had never been to a mine site. And now I stood between men who wore hard hats and torches on their heads, dressed in soiled Hard Yakka pants and wearing thick-soled boots, not knowing if I would see the stars again.
