So I'm Paresh Dawda, I'm a GP at Next Practice Deakin.
We do have a specific interest I guess in looking after people with complex and chronic care needs.
As a result of that, having multidisciplinary teams really great because their needs are complex.
So as well as GPs, we have nurse practitioners, registered nurses, enrolled nurses, physio, diabetes educator, dietitian, practice pharmacist, social worker, an oral hygienist, as well.
I actually thought general practice is the direction for me because it gave me that opportunity to have that longitudinal relationship, be a guest in patients lives at key moments in their life.
And I know when I talk to colleagues and sometimes medical students, there's a perception that as a general practitioner you're locked up in a room for 8 hours a day.
And the reality for me is I spend very little time locked up in my consulting room.
I'm often out visiting patients in their homes, in residential aged care facilities, maybe doing telehealth.
The opportunities I think that present themselves in primary care actually allow you to, you know, have a broad and varied career.
If what's important to you at the end of the day is providing good care to patients having a rewarding career, general practice is absolutely about that.