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RFD Emergency by Fine Poets
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Art and Culture,Entertainment,Poetry
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In the article below, Fine poets.com describes the kind of outback Australia world where poems like The Man From Snowy River and Clancy of the Overflow still describe the life lived. RFD Rural Doctors. Remote Australia. Emergency Medicine. RFD is a drama series set in outback Australia where extreme conditions demand extreme medical interventions. Doctors are the heroes of our story. Their job is saving lives in the hot, dead centre of the Australian outback. Mostly, they love their work. It’s the life that can get you down. It helps to have a sense of humour and our RFD doctors do. We will get a laugh, macabre and otherwise. Each of the seven outback RFD clinics is in competition against the others for the best doctors, nurses, aircraft and resources. The doctors hate Management. The feeling is almost mutual. Management is in Canberra, riven by filthy politics and public servants who unfailingly fail upwards. Working the system often seems to take precedence over saving lives. But lives are saved, despite the internecine disputes. Mostly by quick thinking doctors relying on their wits and training rather than hi- tech equipment, easily accessed surgical departments or inspired leadership. Our doctors tend to be mavericks. Maverick innovation is sometimes the only thing that will save a life in the outback. The unique emergency medicine as practiced by the RFD Doctors is the heart of the show. We’ll experience at least one heart thumping medical emergency each week: a sudden outbreak of leprosy, an underground mine explosion, an electrocution far from help, a run in with a stump jumper, a pregnancy going horribly wrong in the middle of a paddock, inadequately trained local clinic staff forced to do procedures beyond their skill level because there isn’t anybody else in town sober, and across it all, the sheer breathtaking stoicism, courage and often blind stupidity of the people who populate outback Australia. Ordinary general practice in the bush is unique. Our RFD doctors come from everywhere. To be able to practice as a metropolitan GP in Australia, overseas born doctors now have to spend a minimum of eight years in rural or remote areas before they’re given full registration. It can be cruelly lonely for some, a glorious liberation for others. We’ll meet all of the doctors from the Central (N.T. and S.A.) and QNW (Queensland and North Western NSW) RFD District Clinics. Each clinic has one or more airborne teams attached. Specialties need to be shared; the RFD doctors travel between the clinics often. Collaboration is the name of the game but there’s also fair bit of professional competition between the airborne and their landbased colleagues. Too bad if the doctor flying in is the one who thinks you’re an incompetent hack. He may be your only colleague for miles and there is no faster gossip train than the RFD plane. This outback Australia is the modern one where Indigenous people work alongside foreigners of all persuasions, where emergency operations and procedures must be carried out in remote and often bizarre locations across some 7.1 million square kilometers. The RFD doctors are passionate about the opportunities that remote medicine offers them professionally: As an RFD doctor you do something that matters everyday and never know where the day might end. We’ll meet doctors of noble, old fashioned values who really do just want to bring first class medical services to people in the bush. They soon realise that noble intentions aren’t enough. They’ve got to go head to head with the local indigenous leaders, with Canberra, with their ambitious colleagues and with the burgeoning industry of hippie wholistic healthcare idiots who think its smart to bury their kids in cow manure up to their necks to stave off the flu. The fight to maintain evidence based medicine as the pre-eminent healthcare doctrine in the community is critical to the RFD. And those wimps in Canberra look like caving in and recognizing naturopaths and herbalists as Medicare practitioners. Chiropractic was bad enough. The RFD want resources kept for evidence based medicine, and let’s not even get into the Skype–for- diagnosis–in-the-outback debate. Yes, it sounds great and cheap and modern and to oppose it does make you sound like a Luddite, but think of the implications: an immediate cutback in cash funds and planes. It could drive an RFD GP to drink and it does. The Outback draws people from everywhere: people looking for a second chance at life, just graduated doctors from the third world prepared to go anywhere for a crack at GP-ing in a first world country and lots of young doctors looking to simply fast track their experience. How else but as a RFD could just one day’s work deliver you a ritual spearing, an obese infarcting American tourist, snake and spider bites of all persuasions, the hard to recognize hydatids parasite, massive road traumas, rare tropical fungal infections and weirdly in a first world country, malnutrition, the likes of which you’ve never seen before? It’s the most interesting medicine in the world. A great and complex training ground can also be a tough gig however. Conflict is inevitable and not every newbie RFD succeeds. The outback throws unlikely people together and if unique emergency medicine is the heart of the show, then love, and the mature articulation of it, is the soul of our series. Our characters are adults, not teenagers and they have very grown up love affairs. The will-they-won’t-they love that grows between Dr Robert Royle and Dr Monika Schreiber is the central love story of the series. It is the story of a love between two people separated not only by great distances much of the time but also by professional propiety. That their tender new love should be so cruelly cut short in Ep 13 by such a dumb accident is a tragedy of epic proportions for all concerned. (But a very good set up for Series 2) All our medical stories are true and taken from real life situations. THE PRAGMATICS We’ll shoot exteriors in the spectacular outback regions of South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia, drawing on investment funds from SAFC, PFTC and Screen West. We’ll shoot interiors in Melbourne, drawing on investment funds from Film Vic. and if it’s seen as desirable at the time, utilize the Ripponlea Studios of the ABC. Post production will be done in Sydney. Jack Thompson Famous Australian Poetry
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