Ear surgeon Kelvin Kong closing the gap

By Rosemarie Milsom
Updated May 3 2015 - 2:50pm, first published May 1 2015 - 8:45pm

WHEN two brothers walk into a starkly lit room at the rear of Broome Hospital on a Tuesday morning, the confronting extent of ear disease among Aboriginal children becomes apparent. Both boys have rats’ tails – 13-year-old Quentin Turner’s is an uncoiled spring while five-year-old Leithan’s is straight – but that is not all they have in common.

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