Running time
41 sec
Date made
Place made
Australia
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
When you're at sea, the captain isn't part of the wardroom mess. So the captain eats in his cabin and has a sitting room there. If you think about it, everybody on the ship's dependent on what the captain thinks and does and their good rapport depends on that.
It's sort of a bit less so as a doctor. I remember the movie Master and Commander with Russell Crowe. The Doctor and the Captain sort of have a slightly different relationship and I think that's the same because the captain doesn't have many people to confide in, and doctors are there to maintain confidentiality.
