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From Northern Ireland to northern Australia: medicine in the Top End
Author(s) -
Watson R G Peter
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04114.x
Subject(s) - watson , northern ireland , history , computer science , artificial intelligence , ethnology
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 6/20 December 2010 193 11/12 709-710 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au True Stories and well equipped, but lacking a full-time gastroen an impulse, I offered my services for 3 months, and accepted. I applied for a 3-month sabbatical — my f — from my post of 18 years as a gastroenterologis Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and a senior lecturer at Qu sity Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. I must confess that I wasn’t entirely naïve about lif n 8 gis en O June 2009, I started work as a locum gastroenterolot on the other side of the world and in a very different vironment to the one I was used to. The inspiration for my visit came from an article in the careers supplement to the BMJ. A specialist trainee in infectious diseases wrote of his experiences working in Royal Darwin Hospital in the “Top End” of Australia’s Northern Territory. He described the hospital as modern terologist. On my offer was irst sabbatical t at the Royal een’s Univer-