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1 online resource (streaming video file) (28 min. 42 sec.) ; 165740312 bytes |
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If you live in the bush it's hard to get the same level of medical care as you can in the city, but now a doctor has come up with an ambitious idea to change all that.</br></br>Rolf Gomes started his working life as an electrical engineer before turning to medicine.</br></br>The first time he saw a beating heart, with its 'valves and plumbing and electrics', he was 'hooked'.</br></br>Then, as a young registrar in country hospitals, he experienced first-hand the challenges of trying to diagnose and treat patients without the specialist and diagnostic services that people in the city take for granted.</br></br>As a cardiologist Dr Gomes had identified the problem, but as an engineer he sought to solve it.</br></br>He came up with the idea of a mobile clinic - 'the heart bus' - while running his own cardiology practice in Brisbane.</br></br>'The heart bus' travels from town to town, treating patients and giving them a much better chance of surviving heart disease. Now, Dr Gomes has bigger plans to expand his service and include more medical specialties |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2016-07-18 at 20:01:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Cardiologists.
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Electrocardiography.
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Heart -- Diseases.
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Medical instruments and apparatus.
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Social medicine.
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Queensland -- Brisbane.
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Victoria -- Melbourne.
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Streaming video
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Barron, Andrew, contributor
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Blacket, Bob, contributor
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Contarini, David, contributor
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Courtney, Pip, host
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Gomes, Bruce, contributor
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Gomes, Kylie, contributor
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Gomes, Rolf, contributor
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Gomes, Sylvia, contributor
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Jackson, Sharron, contributor
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Marshall, Desley, contributor
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Smith, Jimmy, contributor
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Smith, Sandra, contributor
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Stewart, Donna, contributor
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Walters, Darren, contributor
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