Congrats to Dr Marc Heyning, of Brunswick Heads Medical Centre, who is one of three Australia-wide recipients of the Australian Rural and Remote College’s Distinguished Service Award 2023.
The award recognises those individuals ‘who have provided a specific and significant contribution to rural and remote medicine’.
Dr Heyning was recognised ‘for outstanding advocacy and medical services in his community in the Northern Rivers of NSW.’
He has provided Rural Generalist (RG) obstetric, emergency, and inpatient medical services to the Northern Rivers community for more than 35 years.
Marc says, ‘I stopped counting the number of babies whose births I have been at when I reached 1,000, and that was many years ago’.
‘I am now delivering the next generation of families. It’s so rewarding watching mothers have their babies, and then seeing those babies grow up. It’s equally rewarding watching registrars become the next generation of RG obstetricians’.
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