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Illumine Grammar Women—Dr Wendy Page

29 minutes Posted Oct 26, 2022 at 12:00 am.

Can you tell us about your time at Girls Grammar, and what you remember most vividly about being a student here?

What subjects interested you the most at school, and were you involved in any co-curricular activities as well?

What was it like when your daughter started attending BGGS--having such a familiar place back at the centre of everything?

Did you know from a young age that you wanted to be a doctor?

Can you tell us about your experience working at the Aboriginal Health Services in Brisbane?

Can you tell us about the Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation that you joined in 1993?

What was it was like when you first encountered the many tropical diseases that are prevalent in more remote parts of Australia—how did you learn to treat them without the internet and online databases?

What was it about strongyloidiasis that captured your attention?

What influenced you to become a GP Supervisor?

Do you think that over time you have seen more doctors become interested in working in remote communities?

o Can you tell us about this philosophy that you have embraced from the Yolngu Peoples—'Head, heart, hand and soul’?

What words of encouragement or advice do you have for our current Grammar Girls?

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Of the many uni students that graduate in medicine each year, few dedicate their lives to working in remote and underserviced communities—committing time and resources to studying less well-known tropical illnesses and working to ensure that ‘community health’, really does include ‘working together’ with the peoples from that community. In this episode of Illumine—Grammar Women, Principal of Brisbane Girls Grammar School, Ms Jacinda Euler speaks with alumnae, Dr Wendy Page (1972), who...

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