In the shadow of death, a doctor found his calling | Australian Story
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2019
- It took lying by the side of the road, his life ebbing away, for a disenchanted young doctor to realise he did want to save lives. In the shadow of death, Dr Tim Duncan found his true calling.
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This documentary has captured the essence of service, mateship, bravery and unconditional love. I think it should get a medal. Dr Tim, you are truly extraordinary. May your life and work be legendary
It makes one feel a little more comfortable knowing you are sharing this planet with someone like this man. He makes you want to do better, doesn't he?
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!
I love this video. Tim reminds me of my husband, an ER physician who was formerly a three year family medicine resident. Ed and Tim have the gift of empathy. It is lovely to see and every physician does not have this gift or the love of adventure and an intrinsic enthusiasm. Good for Tim. Ed died of melanoma but worked up to two weeks before he died. He loved it.
Your story is lovely and sad. Thank you
God bless you and your husband ❤️
Good lord, this man is a humble, genuine, beautiful human being.
Not disagreeing. But also, there are MANY many humble, genuine, beautiful human beings.
@Vee Kay,
Idk that there is a response for such IGNORANCE!!!
I wish I had a doctor as caring as Dr. Tim. For that matter, I wish everyone had a doctor so caring.
No I’m dying I’m dead “nah you’ll be right brutha” love it
Dear Aoy, Whatever negative the doctor is telling you about your overnight symptoms you can be sure that you are going to be fit and far from anything Corona. You will have so many wishing you well that there is no need to worry. You earn the maximum of goodwill, and that’s how it will always be. Love you from Denny.
Best bit!! 👌🏽
A very genuine caring human being that's humble and he's a doctor?! YOUR ONE IN A MILLION TIM!! Hope you have a long and happy life and God bless you Dr Tim.
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Absolutely 💯 One in a million doctor
YES a beautiful person inside and out.
Manuel .. a wonderful handsome aboriginal man with his beautiful wife. The 3 aboriginal men who helped Dr Tim .. great work brothers. Thank you for this beautiful Australian story. Thank you to all the professional emergency workers in our remote outback. God bless and keep you all safe.
just think about how we in Australia, this blessed country we're fortunate enough to call home, deal with healthcare compared to the US. This small outback hospital which has a wallaby problem (haha) yet has such wonderful staff such as this doctor Tim. All for free. The indigenous man would not be able to afford treatment in the US. He'd be dead now. We are truly a great country and we need to make sure it stays that way.
Robyn thank you for those lovely words. I agree with all of them. This made me cry with joy for the beauty of Australia in all of its amazing parts. Nowhere else in the world perhaps will you find such a generosity of spirit as here. Our health care system surely must be amongst the best in the world - Manuel and so many others would not be alive without Medicare. And yes, the quiet pride and generosity of those three brothers out there in No Mans land who did save Tim's life makes one grateful and proud as well. It's such a shame that we are not all united in these feelings and values. Perhaps one day we will be.
I agree, such peaceful people!
@Tony Roberts wearing your whites Tony?
@@sarahdrenth1540 Yes, one day people will be united. Surely.
I have an encounter with an aboriginal driver years ago on the road side in the country too. Back then I was driving from Adelaide to Sydney and in middle of the night I pulled out and stop at side of the road for a little nap. Someone knocked on my window to check if I was in trouble and if i needed any help. Well, the Aborigines are truly caring people.
I had a similar experience. The light was shining into my eyes and I woke up. It was California's police highway patrol. Parking off the highway in the forest in the middle of nowhere at night was dangerous. I was lucky that he was a good cop.
Bless those kind people who stopped and helped!
Aah! A wonderful man, full of kindness and humanity. God bless him.
Incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story! Really love seeing Aboriginal people in a beautiful and positive light.
Something similar happened to me, only I was lucky enough to be able to track down the man who saved me and my children. Having a real person, not just a memory, to thank was really important to me, I think about him every day and I genuinely hope Tim finds the men who helped him.
Deadly my indigenous brothers saving this mans life, god bless you Tim god knows your medical hands are definitely needed there for our indigenous people 🖤💛❤️🖤💛❤️
God sends angels when we truly need them, especially when we have a calling, you’re truly blessed Doctor Tim
I truly believe your comment,in my life time I've had bad experiences & there was always an angle sent my way to save me
Isnt that amazing ??? Nurses are smtms in the right place at the right time too. I wish they would teach emergency medical care to school children like the Boy Scouts do so you at least know the basics of first aid and CPR.
I am too convinced of what you said. I was in the exact same kind of incident. One night, going on a dark foggy road, I was changing station on the radio when all of a sudden I seen the car in front of me and I Instantly swerved the steering wheel. I don't know how but I managed to spin three times on myself and hit the car in front of me in it's side sending it in the ditch. I too flew into the ditch, tumbled three times and finally stopped when I crashed onto a tree. I was upside down, had no seat belt on and I managed to get out of that completely mangled car without a scratch. The guy in front of me didn't have one scratch too. Even the first responders were completely stunned. I've been in another handful of circumstances where I have had the feeling that something above was watching over me. Like the time I fell asleep with a sigarette and was literally on fire. My mother said she heard someone wake her up at 3 am telling her to go downstairs and to check on me, next thing she knows is that she's bashing the flames off of my duvet cover with a pillow.
The three might have been God, Himself, in a form you could see Him. He loves you that much.
That was brilliant...I hope he finds the 3 men
I just can't stop waching till the end of this story. Dr. Tim Duncan is amazing. I love this doctor. I just love him. God bless.
Beautiful story, beautiful souls.🙏🏻🌷
I just love the TV program "Australian Story". Thank you or putting it onto youtube.
Na, you‘ll be alright brother 🙏🏻 Bless you guys! What amazing signs...
In all the doom and gloom recently, this was a fabulous story told by a truly amazing man. Thanks for sharing it with us.
My great grandmother was a nurse, my grandmother was a nurse, my aunties were nurses. I became a psychiatric technician/nurse as well. It can become a family history. I have 100 year old photos of my great grandmother holding babies that she had delivered as a Nurse Midwife in the Upper peninsula of Michigan in the late 1890's to the 1930's . We weren't doctors, but we were Nurses, and nurse Midwives. In both upper peninsula Michigan and Nova Scotia Canada. I carry it on, more than 100 years later. ❤ I am French Canadian and Potowatomi, first nation's Canadian, Scottish. My First Nation's Canadian Potowatomi peoples are still working for equality!
Nancy Beveridge Taylor What an incredible family legacy. A whole family of heroes! The number of people you must have all helped must be huge, so many lives touched, so many people cared for. Nurses are the absolute best. Thank you so much for all you do from a random internet stranger in New Zealand xx
Many years of blessings upon you and your precious family members all around!!! Many times it’s the wonderful nurses that are our heroes! Thank you and your whole family for being that earthly angel for those who need you most!!! 💞🥰
What an amazing and beautiful story. This is evidence that each and everyday is a gift and we shouldn’t take it for granted. The contacts we make with each other daily can have such an impact, both positive and negative. We all have the choice, choose Love, kindness and Compassion.
A profound and heartfelt story....loved it and look forward to an update when Tim finds his 'three wise men'. ❤
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This was fantastic!!! I’m a nurse so I was very fascinated by the type of medical care being given. I wish they were more doctors with a true heart and love of medicine like this one!!
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This was so good! I mostly watch true crime... and this uplifting story made a wonderful break and palate refresher 👍
kiwigirljacks - I did the same thing too!
I wish there could be more of these uplifting stories.
Same here
me too,watching true crime but somehow have ended up here..i didnt want this to end brilliant loved it
Me too! I was just watching a true Aus crime story and saw this and was blown away. Great story!
i am native american. sober twenty years this year. my elders told me, 'they don't call em spirits for nothing'...
i love how god had a plan for the doctor man and right as he arrives at the place god had set for him, he used his freewill and changed his mind..god throws a car at him and it only took two seconds to put him back on the path.. and used him to change the very policies that he was railing about earlier, saying 'if i had the chance'... and god gave him the chance..awesome.
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I too am native Indian (half Cherokee) n my elders always told me."keep the faith in our higher spirit and he will guide you to where you need to be." Which sometimes it's not what you want but what you are destined to do or be. We all have a purpose in life, it's finding what makes us happy n sticking to it! I am grateful to the lessons my ancestors taught me.✌ I found Dr. Tim to be very inspiring and finding his purpose made my heart happy!🤗
Adam is a good looking man but Dr Duncan you are are breathtaking man ,looks Spirit and humanity .👍👍🙏😊💖
This was a really good documentary!!
God Bless you Dr. Tim Duncan.✝I couldn't stop crying, such a beautiful story!❤God had a plan for your life!✝
What a lovely humble man !you DONT see many of them around these days .and so glad that Manuel turned his life around too .
I diagnosed my boyfriend with acute appendicitis and he got surgery the next day. He then pointed at the surgeon and said that one day I will be like him. My boyfriend sadly passed away after a car accident and I DID become a surgeon. An emergency surgeon. I did it for a few years and then I realized I'm a small woman who can't do 100 hour workweeks and quit. It was an honor being influenced by a man I loved and it was an honor to be able to do that kind of work. But it's time to find myself again...
Respect to this man for choosing to stay in emergency medicine. Every day is a gift, especially if you can save someone else.
It is amazing the new protocols that have been put in place since both Manuel's experience and your experience Dr Tim.
A great story.
Amazing story and such a lovely man. His Mother and Father must be very proud. I'd go and see any film he made. 🌹🌿🌹
Damn he’s handsome! Makes me want to visit OZ too. Beautiful country. Those three men were heroes. Hope Tim finds them one day.
Anyone who REFUSES to stop and help someone in the middle of nowhere is guilty of murder. Who tf would do that. If I saw someone in the middle of nowhere obviously in need of help, I’d help anyway I can.
They own the the WHOLE damn country why give them booze and not a CT or air umbulance?
Perhaps they did not see the car.
I would NEVER stop in the bush because .....serial killers.
Fukai Kokoro That can be dangerous for women who are alone. Bundy entrapped women by pretending to need help. Always find someone to help, never do it alone, especially in the middle of nowhere.
In my era of growing up (50s-70s), it was a common thing for the teenage boys to catch a ride (hitch hike) to near by towns. Now, there is too much evil to take risks anymore.
I wouldn't have stopped either, unless I had seen the wreck.
However, if I had not stopped, I would've called the police.
My gf was driving home one night and on the road was a man frantically waving her down with the hood of his car up, she did not stop because she was alone. She slowed down and the dude put his hood down got back in his car and started following her so she drove to the police station and he kept on driving. That is why some people don't stop especially a lone woman.
Yet another FABULOUS story ABC. It’s become a habit to sit around the smart box as a family, to watch stories like these. We are eternally grateful. Education like these as a family unit, I feel, has become scarce. Ty.
What a great example of a man and a human, should be more like him. Great little doco would love an update down the track.
A Excellent Video.. Highly Recommended.. Thank You Very Much For Sharing.. Looks Like Australians And Canadians Are On The Same Page.Good Hearted People..
What a truly amazing story of life, death, friendship, and how each one guided these two men to what they were put here to do. Thank you for sharing such a personal experience.
I became a Paramedic under similar circumstances .. what a brilliant, brilliant story 💖
Incredible, inspiring, well-told story. Wow.
The kind of stories I used to read in Reader's Digest, now I watch on YT.
This is the real Australian spirit. Heartwarming. Beautiful. Thank you Australian Story!
Australian Story is the bees knees! Brava Tim, Manuel & the three kind souls who ensured that Tim is here to tell his story. I do hope you find them one day. Although I’ve found the Indigenous people I’ve known are both humble & shy. Thanks to all for the changes that have taken place because of this. 👏👏👏
The three aboriginal men were sent by God as Dr. Tim's angels.
white god doesn't send aboriginal people. the only thing he sends is white people to kill aboriginal people and their culture.
@@tuvavatu7041 Go back to your negative hole in the ground.
Amen
@@tuvavatu7041 What a load of absolute crock. I don’t know where YOU have received ur information from. JESUS; HIMSELF was a Jew!!!! GOD DOES NOT SEE COLOUR. GO READ THE BIBLE/ TO DISCOVER: THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD………
This gives hope. So many documentaries about violence and hate. The for the film. You're amazing.
I accidentally came upon this story...and...my heart oozed with love and compassion for all involved...this gave me back the idea that there are genuine good hearted people everywhere...love love this...thank you for a TRULY INSPIRING story...such love compassion and humbleness ❤️...you made my day my week my month and my year...again thank you!!! God bless all these people involved 🙏🏻😊
I got lost in Camberra in my late 50's. I called out for help to a tall well looking man asking for directions. He totally ignored me leaving me in tears.
Gorgeous humble man. Empathy in spades. Life unfolding in line with the universe. Meant to be , how he evolved into a role that uses his Dr skills but also so much more. His family are such lovely people. Great and just respect for his indigenous friends. Respect all the way from Ireland ❤
Thank you for this amazing doco.
How honest and absolutely human this was.
An amazing unfolding of events that paved the way to not only change the lives of those involved, but others, because of that.
This story is very impactful....I am going through a similar situation right now...my name is Tim also...I am black ..my best friend is white and he is there for me...I have struggled for years with addiction...my friend is going to school for studies in psychology...I am amazed at your story...I have tears as I write this!!! Tim your an amazing man both you and Manuel!¡!
It is called synchronicity, your story and his alike.
A beautiful medical story. We can never plan our destination. These two will be friends for life, their initial encounter changed their lives forever in a beautiful way.
Great story and personal experience of where life can lead us for the better.
My children are Hawaiian and I try to impress on them how important it is for them to keep their culture alive. No matter what culture you are, honor it, respect it, and remember it.
Wow, to see the blessings come and go full circle ... It's a beautiful thing to see and to bare witness to. Thank You for your story Dr. Tim
Wow...Amazing love story...How easy is it for us to just Love and appreciate one another...
What a beautiful story! It is amazing how the Universe always makes our life worthwhile to live and learn. You are such a good man... congratulations on everything thing you’ve done ... blessing to you always ✨🙏🏻✨
A feel good story. May all your dreams come true. Hoop you find those blokes.
What a lovely story full of wonderful people!!! Blessings to all who have a part of making ones life better!!! 💞🥰
Such a miraculous intertwining of two lives to show life can become better than hoped. Good on ya, mates!
What a beautiful story. His relationship with Manuel is a rare friendship something we all should aspire to.
You were destined to live that life. Unreal sharing of this story. Thanks
Beautiful souls creating such wonder for the people living in remote communities…sometimes an accident is all it takes…
AMAZINGGGGG!!!! LOVED THIS STORY Duncan :) Blessed are you!!! Many can take this on board! A fantastic good old Australian story.
Bless all of you.. nothing is more pure then following your heart.. thank you for sharing your world changing story 🙏
Two beautiful and blessed creations.
What a wonderful story!
What a proud mother he has also.
Tim’s passion for helping those in the Aboriginal community is heartwarming.
He see’s the people for the good souls they are. 🙏🏼🌹
You are the most humble, sincere, genuine, salt of the earth human being I’ve ever listened to. I pray that God blesses you beyond measure!
Heartwarming- these two central people in this story ard wonderful! Bless!
Bravo Tim & Manuel... wonderful stories of a life changing experience...
Interesting Manuel and tim
Heartfelt glad he found a good friend with the aboriginal gentleman and really hope he get to meet the men who save his and his exgirl friend lives.
Thank you both for sharing the story of your life saving adventures and how friendship blossomed in the thick of it. Second chances are a gift. Keep up the great work and I sure hope that it'll be possible to find the other 3 guys!
So humble doctor, who'd chose his career to care for others.
Bosis of Sweden so do I, I just wish they didn’t drink so much, got proper education and proper jobs
This is what Australia is about kindness and compassion and respect for all
An true role model with a truly inspiring story
I think this story would make a Great movie . Hope some day soon you find the men that helped you
I couldn’t love this story more. Triumph over tragedy!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for reminding me what makes me happiest, just this time not free.
Manuel and Dr Tim are so full of humanity for everyone around them ❤️💛🌻
Kaylene Duncan, you're a mum (like me, lol). We always worry, it's in our job description. Your amazing son has paid his dues. I think he is amazing and quite indestructible. Bless you all.
I myself had a near death experience back in the early nineties while surfing in Mexico. Back then Puerto Escondido was a very small town only known to few surfers both local and non. I was traveling, backpacking and hitchhiking with my girlfriend at time through South America. There were some amazing waves that day and a gorgeous blue sky. My friend and I decided to do some surfing while the break was at it's peak. After an hour she decided to head back onto the beach for some sun and I wasn't finished surfing. I caught as many waves as possible and finally decided to go in and join her a few hour's later. The last thing I remember was her yelling at the top of her lungs 'look out behind you". I remember turning around to find a seven footer wave crashing straight down for me. I duck dived but not quick enough and was in the white wash holding my breath as I'm being spun around and pulled towards the rock's. Finally I was able to surface for some air but luck wasn't on my side as another monster wave took me out. I remember my life flashing before me, a white light and photos of my childhood /family before my eye's. I knew I was done for and that I would never see anyone I loved again and vice versa. Then I'm awake on the beach with my friend who happened to be a nurse giving me CPR along with an older local man and his elderly dog. They saved my life and I had indeed hit the rock wall with my head which gave me one nasty concussion along with a few open head wounds. There was no hospital there or anywhere close so I owe my life to them and I have never been able to locate the man who saved my life that day. He was extremely brave enough to jump in and drag me back to the beach risking his own life without hesitation. I was already enrolled in school back home for Veterinary Medicine and I remember how much his dog eased my fear and anxiety. I finished school and donate my time not only back here in Canada but Mexico and South America as well whenever possible. I had known when I was 6 year's old that I would dedicate my love and life to Veterinary ER medicine. However because of that brave 'unknown' man and his dog I had and have dedicated to donating my time and skills in Mexico. I just wish he would have left his name at least with my friend when she asked that day. Where ever you are Sir I want you to know that I thank you everyday and think of you often. 🙏 🌊 💙
Surfergrl72Roxy What an incredible story! Thanks for sharing! :)
What a wonderful humanistic story. It's refreshing.
This is so touching !God bless two mates, doctor and artist!Wish them both long and happy life.
I loved his story! We can learn so much from the indigenous community.
Love this Dr. Tim’s story and Manuel. Truly - GOD works in mysterious ways 😇 God bless you both.
Ummm, Dr. Duncan IS handsome enough to play himself. Just saying.
Agreed!!!
He sure is!! I actually prefer him, over the also very good looking actor.
Almestica Red agreed.
Yup.
I thought so too! 🥵
What an uplifting story and two extraordinary human beings. The story gives one hope for humanity.
Wonderful Story of giving and friendship by this fabulous doctor and awesome artist. BEAUTIFUL 💓💞❤ LOVE THIS 🥰
Whoa,,, thanks so much for sharing such a wonderful truth story of a young MD still in this generation,,, Safe & blessed travel in your all each journey,,,
Profoundly moving and heartwarming. Two exceptional human beings!!
So uplifting and touching x
This story restored my faith in humanity . There are still genuine people who truly care about others . Dr Duncan you are an extraordinary man . You fount a way to make your life really matter . You are caring and so humble . I wish you all of the best . ❤️
What a wonderful man, and wonderful doctor. Wow.
Earth Angel Tim. Such a very special person. I hope you found the guys who saved your life and look at the man’s life now you did save. God bless you x
Absolutely awesome. 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻
I Love his parents ❤️
What a great story. Thank you!
Heart warming stories of people who affect each other and those around them. You all did great. I am glad that Dr Tim and Emmanuel found their calling and gained good friends despite their differences in their background. God bless.