After growing up as an Aboriginal woman in the Northern Territory, Karlie James decided to become a doctor. Now, she hopes to show others they can do the same.
"It's not only from fellow students, sometimes it can be from supervisors, it can be from patients, it can be from other staff members within the hospital," Dr Raye said.One was her commitments as a mother of four, and a guardian and leader for her broader family and community, which she said many other First Nations people have too.
But in her final year, her son Jacob was diagnosed with leukaemia, prompting the whole family to move from Darwin to Adelaide for his treatment.Dr James says her son Jacob's leukaemia diagnosis pushed her to study medicine. "In a way, as crazy as it sounds, it helped to deal [with] and process everything that was going on."Dr James said for a lot of potential First Nations doctors, a major challenge is a belief that, like she initially had, studying medicine simply wasn't a possibility.
"We all [her and her Indigenous doctor colleagues] hope to have some sort of a domino effect,” she said.
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