Fly Me A Doctor

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Fly Me A Doctor

By Suzanne Norquist What do you get when you combine a pastor, an airman, an inventor, and a wealthy industrialist? In Australia, you get the Aerial Medical Service, later known as the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The pastor, Reverend John Flynn, recognized the need for medical professionals in remote parts of Australia in the nineteen-teens. As head of the Australian Inland Mission, he aided people in the sparsely populated Outback. Flynn becam…