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Instructions By Radio SYDNEY, May 20. When bad weather grounded the Broken Hill flying doctor. Dr. F. Wood,, he sat in his office and. by radio, prescribed for patients hundreds of miles away. The patients’ complaints were reported to the doctor bv pedal wireless. The first case was a station hand at Gnalta. far western New South Wales. Several weeks ago a lamp had exploded in his face and a piece of brass had become embedded in his forehead. Dr. Wood instructed the manager of the station to sterilise a pair of scissors, then step by step described how to operate. The patient is recovering. Other recent eases treated on radio instructions included: A baby with a bleeding ear at a homestead along the Queensland border fence: a man who had fallen from his horse and broken his ankle; a 16-year-old bov in Queens land who had a head-swellin- that, needed lancing; and a baby and a shearer at separate stations, suffering with "severe pains.'
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23216, 1 June 1945, Page 8
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