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Stephanie Gardiner

The $45,000 golden prescription to heal rural health

A boost in pay to go with an an idyllic life in rural Mudgee, what more could a local GP need? (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Unlimited fresh air and blue skies, a daily walk to work, a healthy drop of fine wine, two NRL games each year, an extra $45,000 in the bank and an idyllic life in "God's country".

This is what the Mudgee community has prescribed to entice city doctors to the famed wine region in central western NSW in a bold bid to ease a dire shortage of GPs.

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