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Guest post by Tane Eunson – A student of the game (6th year M.B.B.S.) As the plane descended over the Southern Alps and through the Canterbury Plains, making it’s way east to the Pacific Ocean like the Waimakariri, I couldn’t help but feel excited to be returning home. Home being the shaky isles of New Zealand and my six-week medical elective being in the particularly shaky city of Christchurch. The Waimakariri River, Canterbury, NZ. December 10th, 2015 Although Perth has been my new home since 2007, I spent the four years prior to that gaining my undergraduate degree in Christchurch; four years which I look back on with great fondness. Unfortunately much has changed since then in this once beautiful city. The devastating earthquake of February 2011 which levelled the CBD and claimed 185 lives has forever changed the city’s landscape. Much has changed in my life too. I began university in Christchurch as a fresh-faced engineering student, before an unlucky rugby tackle ruptured my spleen and almost had me confirming whether they really do play rugby in heaven. Faced with my own mortality, I had a change of perspective on what I wanted to do with my life, which ultimately led me away from Christchurch and engineering and into Perth and medicine. As I was returning to this somewhat familiar city, I was also returning to a somewhat familiar elective environment; the headquarters of seven-times Super Rugby Champions, the Crusaders. Due to my passion for the game and ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Sports Medicine crusaders Dr Deb Robinson elective rugby Tane Eunson Waimakariri Waimumu Wiremu Source Type: blogs