Paediatrician, David Meldrum, initially studied engineering
at university, but left halfway through his degree. “I couldn’t stand it, quite
frankly the maths was beyond me!” he exclaims, sitting in his office in Lismore
Base Hospital. After a break working and travelling, David thought he’d give
medicine a try, and hasn’t looked back.
After finishing his medical degree in Melbourne, where he
grew up, David took a year off to travel in Australia and overseas. He settled
in Sydney when he returned, and there met his wife, Kim, who had also just been
travelling the globe. It was 1996 and Kim had recently emigrated from England.
The two met at a party and immediately hit it off, swapped suitcase stories, and
it turned out they’d been to a lot of the same places, right down to both having
stayed with the same family in the same yurt in a remote village in western
China.
