AUGUST 2020
271TH EDITION
From the Outback to the North Shuswap By Jo Anne Malpass meets full license requirements. Thanks to the generosity of the commuFor the last six months Dr. Bucarelli and nity, the North Shuswap Health Centre NSHC Executive Director Gail McNeil(NSHC) now has a portable ultrasound ma- Oliver have been working through the prochine at the clinic and thanks to the hard cess. Dr. Bucarelli found the NSHC through work and dedication of NSHC Society and a listing on Health Match BC, a health prostaff, the clinic now has a full time doctor to fessional recruitment service funded by the operate it. Government of After working British Columbia. through the internaInterior Health tional recruitment has given its approcess, the Health proval and now Centre is now happy the final piece is to announce the addifalling into place tion of a full-time with the BC Colfamily physician, Dr. lege of Family Domino Bucarelli to Physicians, says the North Shuswap McNeil-Oliver. Health Centre team. Dr. Mistry’s comDr. Bucarelli and mitment to the her husband have community and moved back home to North Shuswap Health Centre team l to r - Dr. Domino health centre over Canada from Australthe past two Bucarelli, Executive Director Gail McNeil Oliver, ia. They chose the years has allowed Dr. Dinesh Mistry and medical receptionist Darby North Shuswap bethe clinic to be Pollock, all smiles behind their masks. cause her husband eligible for interspent many summers national medical here as a child at his family’s cabin. Dr. graduates to apply to the physician vacancy. Bucarelli says it is a beautiful area and she Dr. Bucarelli lived in Australia for about looks forward to spending many years here 12 years where she completed specialist and getting to know patients on a personal training in General Practice, earned a maslevel. ter’s degree in public health and a postBecause she took her training in Austral- graduate diploma in child health from the ia, she has had to work through the process University of Sydney. During her training, of becoming licensed in BC. Some resishe worked in various locations in Australia, dents have already met Dr. Bucarelli as she including a city hospital emergency room has been working alongside Dr. Dinesh Mis(Continued on page 3) try as she awaits her provisional license and SCOTCH CREEK
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