Small town parties as doctor breaks drought

Small town parties as doctor breaks drought: "He will move by the end of the year into a new health centre, on which Wudinna spent about $500,000 in a push to build up its health workforce. But Dr Lewis counts the lifestyle, people and breadth of practice as bigger drawcards. He chose Wudinna as his base because he spent time there in training, and he spent his early years in the bush, moving from town to town in South Australia with his bank manager father."

He is not totally cut off because he has a hangar for his plane. Doctor Lewis is bound to thrive because he has gone into a community and most of us need that and it's what we don't have these days. A community looks after its own and that kind of nurturing cannot be replicated and we just don't get it in the suburbs and cities. He will learn how to be a good doctor because he'll practise with the support of his community. It's good to see someone break the mould and dare to be different.