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Stephanie Gardiner

Rewards of going rural, as doctors push for recognition

Recognising rural generalist medicine as a specialty could attract more doctors to the bush. (Alan Porritt/AAP PHOTOS)

As a rural generalist doctor, Raymond Lewandowski might work in the emergency room in the middle of the night, tend to a birthing mother in the early hours and visit hospital patients during the day.

"It's full on, there's a lot of asks and a lot of things you have to do, but it's also full on in its rewards," said Dr Lewandowski, the president of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia.

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