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Episode 5

Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.

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Episode 5

Season 2 Episode 5 | 48m 35s | CC

In the grip of a heatwave, tensions flare between Eliza and Pete while transporting a highly contagious patient in stifling PPE. Wayne’s world is thrown upside down when a routine callout to a seizing patient takes a harrowing turn.

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