Photo: Matt Shand ASMS
Along with her day job as an anaesthetist based in Nelson, Katie Ben is the new president of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists.
Dr Ben has been working in private and public hospitals since 2010.
Every few weeks, she flies herself with an instructor in to different townships on the West Coast to see patients who've requested an assessment under the End of Life Choice Act. To drive would take several hours.
She talks to Kathryn about a big workload covering a large area.
