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Dr Angela Worthington
Tributes have been paid to NSW cardiologist Dr Angela Worthington who has died from Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 45.
Dr Worthington worked in Newcastle where she was director of cardiology at the Calvary Mater Hospital.
As well as her practice at Newcastle Cardiology she was well known for her work with Indigenous and regional communities.
Her sister told the ABC that Angela Worthington had a passion for social justice that drove her to go out work in less well off communities that did not have the same services as metropolitan areas.
“When she set up her specialist practice, she made sure she did visits up the coastline and into the Hunter Valley to make sure she was providing help to people out there too – particularly indigenous people,” she said