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‘Not my arm’: hard medicine brings doctors to the bush

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A man lies in a paddock under the blazing sun, groaning and covered in blood with his left arm caught in a tractor loader.

Emergency services are on their way to free him with the jaws of life, but it will take them three hours to reach the remote property.

As time ticks by, the farmer loses blood, goes into shock and his pulse is weak.

A medic from the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) decide...


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