Originally Posted by
compressor stall
I was somewhat indifferent to 90% of inter hospital transfers through, being somewhat routine.
This probably needs to be stressed too. You'll probably only do a handful of super high stakes retreivals a year where you're involved in outright saving a life, the rest will be low acuity transfers, repat flights or clinics. For the most part you're just making up for the absolute lack of specialist care in WA other than down south, Gero, Hedland and Broome.
Missed your dialysis appointment during the day and now in renal failure, and its a Friday night with no local services until Monday? RFDS to Perth. Non-specific pain in the gut but you're in a super remote community? RFDS to Broome (absconded on arrival).
Don't even dream about a road landing or limited flare path, there are guys who've been there 15 years and have never done either outside of training. Just too many good mining strips around and the medical threshold required to risk a AU$10mil asset on something other than an actual airstrip is very, very high.