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Rudi Maxwell

Indigenous health pioneers working to overcome inequity

Childhood experiences alongside his nurse mother inspired Kelvin Kong to study medicine. (HANDOUT/UNIVERISTY OF NEWCASTLE)

As a child Kelvin Kong used to help his mum, a nurse, dress wounds and take out stitches and perform other medical procedures on extended family members who would drop in to their home.

When at high school, he realised his non-Indigenous friends would visit a doctor for the same reasons.

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