Flying Doctor Service

	Flying Doctor Service Flying Doctors may refer to: * Royal Flying Doctor Service, an air medical service in Australia '' The Flying Doctors'', an Australian television drama series ''The Flying Doctor'', a 1936 Australian-British film * Los Médicos Voladores, the flying doctors, based in Latin America * Flying Doctors of America * Flying Doctors of Malaysia * '' The Flying Doctors of East Africa'', a 1969 film ** A service of the African Medical and Research Foundation African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa * Ethn ... , documented by the 1969 film {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Royal Flying Doctor Service The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), commonly known as the Flying Doctor, is an air medical service in Australia. It is a non-profit organisation that provides emergency and primary health care services for those living in rural, remote and regional areas of Australia who cannot access a hospital or general practice due to the vast distances of the Outback. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical organisations in the world. History A "mantle of safety" for the Outback The Reverend John Flynn had worked in rural and remote areas of Victoria and was commissioned by the Presbyterian Church to look at the needs of people living in the outback. His report to the Presbyterian Assembly in 1912 resulted in the establishment of the Australian Inland Mission (AIM), of which he was appointed Superintendent. In 1928, he formed the AIM Aerial Medical Service, a one-year experiment based in Cloncurry, Queensland. This experiment later became The Royal Flying Doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	The Flying Doctors ''The Flying Doctors'' is an Australian drama TV series produced by Crawford Productions that revolves around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing (set in the real life town of Minyip in north-western rural Victoria). The success of the mini-series led to its return the following year as an ongoing series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season, and actor Robert Grubb arrived as new doctor Geoff Standish. McFarlane later returned to the series, resuming his role. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained and about medical items. The Australian society was mirrored in handling more or less controversial soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	The Flying Doctor ''The Flying Doctor'' is a 1936 Australian-British drama film directed by Miles Mander and starring Charles Farrell, Mary Maguire and James Raglan. The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia operate in the Australian Outback. Noted as Australia's first "sound" feature film, ''The Flying Doctor'' was also the country's first feature-length film based on aviation. Plot On his wedding night, Sandy Nelson (Charles Farrell) decides to abandon his young bride, Jenny (Mary Maguire) to go work in Sydney as a painter on the Harbour Bridge. He befriends a doctor, John Vaughan (James Raglan), who is in love with a married woman. Vaughan decides to acquire his flying license in order to accept a job as flying doctor in the outback. Sandy gets in a brawl at a cricket match, serves time in prison, then heads for the outback and discovers gold. He is shot in a barroom fight and loses his eyesight. He then discovers Vaughan has fallen in love with Jenny, his former bride. When he realises ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Los Médicos Voladores, The Flying Doctors LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to: Science and technology * Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation * Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers * Level of significance, a measure of statistical significance * Line-of-sight (other) * LineageOS, a free and open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers * Loss of signal Fading End of pass (spaceflight) * Loss of significance, undesirable effect in calculations using floating-point arithmetic Medicine and biology * Lipooligosaccharide, a bacterial lipopolysaccharide with a low-molecular-weight * Lower oesophageal sphincter Arts and entertainment * ''The Land of Stories'', a series of children's novels by Chris Colfer * Los, or the Crimson King, a character in Stephen King's novels * Los (band), a British indie rock band from 2008 to 2011 * Los (Blake), a character in William Blake's poetry * Los (rapper) (born 1982), stage name of American rapper Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Flying Doctors Of America Flying Doctors of America was founded by Allan M. Gathercoal in 1990. Currently it has more than 7000 volunteers in association. The organization brings together physicians, dentists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, pharmacists, and other non-medical volunteers who give medical and dental care to people in developing countries throughout the world. All of the missions are short-term (one or two weeks), professionally managed and affordable. Each team member makes a small donation to the organization which is used to cover the cost of transportation, lodging and mission expenses. Each year the schedule of missions is posted on the organization's website. The organization is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization registered as Medical Mercy Missions, Inc. with the IRS and in the state of Georgia, DBA: Flying Doctors of America. It is listed in the Encyclopedia of Associations, published by Thomson Gale. It is listed in Idealist - Directory of nonpro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Flying Doctors Of Malaysia Flying Doctors of Malaysia is conducted under the Ministry of Health Ministry of Health may refer to: Note: Italics indicate now-defunct ministries. * Ministry of Health (Argentina) * Ministry of Health (Armenia) * Australia: ** Ministry of Health (New South Wales) * Ministry of Health (The Bahamas) * Ministry of ... with transport provided by the Royal Malaysian Air Force. This service is offered to natives who live deep in the jungle and cannot be contacted via other routes. The service is limited to areas that have landing zones. In West Malaysia, the service is provided by the Maternal and Child clinics (KKIA), consisting of static and mobile. Static KKIA service is provided in the Hospital JHEOA, Gombak whereas mobile KKIA service is provided by the various interior medical posts which is under the control of JHEOA. The districts involving the mobile KKIA services include: Pahang district - Kuala Lipis - Lenjang Post, (Landing Zone) LZ Titom, LZ Kendrong and LZ Cero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Flying Doctors Of East Africa ''The Flying Doctors of East Africa'' (german: Die Fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika) is a 1969 documentary film by Werner Herzog about the "flying doctors" service of the African Medical and Research Foundation in Tanzania and Kenya. The film is a fairly conventional documentary made during the filming of Herzog's more stylized films '' Fata Morgana'' and ''Even Dwarfs Started Small ''Even Dwarfs Started Small'' (german: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen) is a 1970 West German absurdist comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. Plot Dwarfs confined in an institution on a remote island rebel again ...''. Herzog was asked to make this film by some friends of the doctors themselves. The film consists mostly of factual accounts of the doctors' service, mostly avoiding the surrealism and stylizations that characterize the typical Herzog film. Herzog has said, "I do not even call it a film, it is much more a ''Bericht'', a report." References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]