Great dividing drama.

Australian Doctor,  April, 2007  

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By Adam Cresswell

The media's obsession with outback medicine does general practice few favours

THE Australian outback is a movie star in its own right, one whose presence can transform an otherwise well-trodden plot into an apparently original crowd-pleaser and suffuse the entire enterprise with a grand and epic quality.

One of the best examples of this is the TV series The Flying Doctors . After an initial commission of six one-hour dramas, the series was a runaway success and a further 221 episodes were made, screened in more than 50 countries.

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