He also pledged an additional $2 million to hire more nurses and provide incentives for rural doctors.

They typically have about one year of training; those who sit and pass government examinations qualify to be rural doctors.

However, there is a government move to have all rural doctors complete three years training.

It was a series about a rural doctor who moves from a ranch to a large city.

A result, according to rural doctors and social workers, is that people are dying who would normally be saved.

He was the only rural doctor ever to practice home birth in Australia.

The other person was a rural doctor from China.

But increasingly, the problem is not keeping rural doctors but getting them there in the first place.

Even when rural doctors bothered to do them, he said, it took up to four months to receive results from a Bangkok lab.

The son of a rural medical doctor, he was not a wealthy aristocrat.