Months of angst over loss of Katherine's only GP could have been avoided, Dr Spafford says

By Roxanne Fitzgerald
Updated January 28 2021 - 6:53pm, first published January 27 2021 - 4:30pm
Dr Peter J Spafford says the closure of his clinic Gorge Health was a dark time in his long-spanning career. Picture: Roxanne Fitzgerald.
Dr Peter J Spafford says the closure of his clinic Gorge Health was a dark time in his long-spanning career. Picture: Roxanne Fitzgerald.

As Dr Peter J Spafford closed the doors to his clinic for the last time, it was a sigh of relief after years of being stretched thin, but the reality of an isolated town left without a doctor would burden his mind for months to come.

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