Encore: What I learnt about Australia as an Outback GP

When Sonia Henry signed up to work as a GP in a remote mining town in the Pilbara, the experience changed almost everything she believed about Australia.

An unfortunate romantic entanglement just before her final exams left her questioning everything, just as she was about to qualify as a doctor.

To escape her life in Sydney, she signed up to work in some of Australia's most far-flung medical clinics.

While working as a GP in places like the Pilbara, outback NSW, the Northern Territory and Broome Sonia had many experiences with her patients wh...