Rural and remote health
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20 March 2025
Watching the experts from the passenger seat
We’d met earlier that morning at the start of their shift; me keen to get as many photos and video as I could and experience a day in the life of a paramedic on the northern Gold Coast, and them; “volun-told” to have this internal comms guy
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15 March 2025
It's sunny skies for cardiac arrest survivor Gary
In early February 2025, 64-year-old Gary Fletcher had decided to start driving himself to hospital from his Narangba home after an extreme bout of chest pain while mowing, but his plans changed quickly.
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19 February 2025
QAS collaborates to cover the Cape
At the northernmost tip of Australia, Cape York is a beautiful, yet challenging landscape for the Queensland Ambulance Service to navigate. 
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01 September 2024
Ken proves CPR training has far-reaching benefits
A “Grey Nomad” walks into an ambulance station… It could be the start of a joke, but while the story the regional Victorian traveller told Baralaba’s Officer in Charge Vaughan Mason has left him with a huge and long-lasting grin, it was
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20 April 2024
100 not out for Mount Larcom Ambulance Station!
The last 100 years saw Mount Larcom survive turf-wars and the Great Depression, while keeping patient care at the forefront of everything they did...