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Health
Stephanie Gardiner

'Not my arm': hard medicine brings doctors to the bush

This man could lose his arm. Does he? These are sorts of challenges faced by bush doctors. (Stephanie Gardiner/AAP PHOTOS)

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.

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