{"id":3983,"date":"2019-02-11T13:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:33:33","slug":"doctor-at-sea-by-georgina-ainsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/doctor-at-sea-by-georgina-ainsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>A self-described \u201cwandering wonderer\u201d, Dr David Chong is passionate about surgery, the bigger meaning of life&nbsp; and ensuring he stays real to who he is.<\/p>\n<p>When talking to pediatric plastic surgeon David Chong, it doesn\u2019t take long before you get caught up in his energy, passion and pure zest for life. A man who, when asked to describe himself in two sentences, says: \u201cI only need two words.\u201d This \u201cwandering wonderer\u201d is a surgeon by day, a searcher in life and a seriously cool guy all round.<\/p>\n<p>Dividing his time in Melbourne, Australia between a children\u2019s hospital and his own private practice, this laid-back Aussie also finds the time to volunteer six to eight weeks a year with Mercy Ships on the world\u2019s largest charity hospital ship \u2013 the same organisation that 20 years ago determined his path into plastic surgery.<\/p>\n<p>With a volunteer crew of more than 400 people from 35 different nations, the Africa Mercy&nbsp;hospital ship provides free, life-saving surgery to some of the poore...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-described \u201cwandering wonderer\u201d, Dr David Chong is passionate about surgery, the bigger meaning of life&nbsp; and ensuring he stays real to who he is. When talking to pediatric plastic surgeon David Chong, it doesn\u2019t take long before you get caught up in his energy, passion and pure zest for life. A man who, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[602,1492,1493,1494,1495,1496,1497,1498],"class_list":["post-3983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","tag-australia","tag-africa-mercy","tag-david-chong","tag-dr-gary-parker","tag-madagascar","tag-malaysia","tag-melbourne","tag-mercy-ships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions\/7551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}