It's frontier living, but it still sounds like a good living with income to support living off the grid. If I had a medical degree and were 20 years younger, and I would have applied for that job in a shot, medical school loans be damned.

Where are the hardy young med school grads that want to make a start? Surely at that level of income, one can get a Dish system and a generator to supplement the lack of internet, phone, power, etc... and a good Land Rover or mule to get around on?

Haele

Sounds awesome. Six thousand patients might be a bit much, but one assumes they don't expect a lot of help, or they would not be out there.

as far as phone/internet go. Don't know about the mule but a good LR would get you around pretty well, I should think.

We know someone who moved to New Zealand. He is an economics professor and a talented jazz prodigy. He had a position at a Dallas Univ and a band back in the days of protest. They had a signature song, F' Bush.

http://dunedinwearsthepants.com

Wonder what he has to say...... Will look in to it.

Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

she came back to the US, which I found surprising, but she's minority, and I suspect she may have encountered some unpleasantness there related to that fact.

And not everybody is cut out for "roughing it".

So they plan it so people only get sick/need surgery on weekdays? Sweet.

The area itself boasts lousy, rain forest type weather (sunshine is rare), and a population that is economically depressed with all the social and medical problems that go with it. Still, it looks like a great job for the right person. The rolling green hills are beautiful.

I would be there in a second.

Especially if most of the patients are ethnic Maori.