Summary Writer:  Jane McDonnell Script Writer:  Rob Mitchell Editor:  Rob Mitchell Interviewee: Patrick Gillespie, John O'Neill Robert Mitchell, Emergency Physician, chats to Patrick Gillespie and John O'Neill about pre-hospital and retrieval medicine from the junior doctors perspective and how to cope with rural rotations and emergency situations. Dr Patrick Gillespie Dr Pat Gillespie is an Emergency Medicine registrar. He completed his medical degree at the University of Queensland and has worked across a number of disciplines including Emergency, Intensive care, Anaesthetics, Paediatrics, and Pre-Hospital Medicine in Cairns and South East Queensland. He is currently working as a retrievals registrar for Lifeflight Queensland and is studying to complete his Emergency Medicine Fellowship in 2019. He is passionate about pre-hospital care and medical education. He loves spending his working days flying over the beautiful landscape of Far North Queensland and his spare time exploring its beaches, reefs and rainforests. Dr John O'Neill Dr John O'Neill is an Emergency Physician and the Clinical Lead for Lifeflight Retrieval Medicine in Cairns. After completing Emergency Medicine training in the United Kingdom and Australia he decided the grass really was greener and moved to Cairns five years ago. After many years in pre-hospital and retrieval medicine he has developed a keen interest in the challenges of providing critical care in remote environments. This started somewhere in the desert of Western Australia and continued in the United Kingdom and New Zealand working for a number of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS), before returning to the reef and the rain forest in Far North Queensland with the Royal Flying Doctors Service and Lifeflight. John is part of a group developing the regional trauma service at Cairns Hospital and has published work on trauma and resuscitation. When he’s not crying over the fate of the England rugby team John is an optimistic triathlete.