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Founded by emergency-experienced clinicians who believe the medicine and the rest of your life can both be looked after.

A purpose-built urgent care for kids and young adults in Innaloo, founded by two clinicians who worked primarily in ED. Real acuity, real infrastructure, time to do the work properly — and your own bed every night.

You're a generalist in the truest sense — broad, capable, comfortable under pressure, the doctor of last resort when the call needs to be made. You did the rural years, the FIFO stints, the regional ED nights, the mining roster, the long ED locums. The medicine is real. The income is good. The skills are sharp.

But the lifestyle is breaking the rest of your life.

You aren't unhappy in your work. You're losing the rest of your life to it. The missed birthdays. The half-present partner. The body that doesn't recover the way it did at 32. You've been telling yourself for a year or two that you should figure out what's next. You haven't, because most "next" options ask you to give up the medicine.

We're Drs Smriti Shah and Justin Withnall — two emergency-experienced clinicians, husband and wife, and parents. We built Kinkaya because we wanted the medicine we trained for, in a clinic where families aren't rushed or judged, and where the doctors caring for them aren't either. We know exactly what you're weighing up.

The acuity is real.
We can show you.

You'd use your full breadth — paediatrics, undifferentiated acuity, fractures, lacerations, procedures, decision-making weight. The case mix is kids and young adults: fevers and gastro at one end, real injuries and undifferentiated unwell at the other. This is not GP with an x-ray. We'll show you the case mix before you commit to anything.

  • On-site x-ray, daily

  • On-site pathology

  • Fracture clinic

  • Paediatric-trained nurses

  • Paediatrician access

  • Procedure-equipped rooms
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Time, not throughput

Consults are long enough to listen properly. Observation continues until it feels right, not until the next patient is waiting. A worried parent isn't moved on; they're reassured. A kid isn't talked over; they're talked to.

You'd be trusted to take the time you need. That's the brand promise on the patient-facing side, and it's the working condition on yours.

The lifestyle you've been told you couldn't have

No nights

Ever
No on-call

Ever
No stints

Ever
Own bed

Every night

The team you've been wanting to work with

A small team that's grown-up about disagreement and serious about quality. Where a paediatric-trained nurse pushing back on your plan is welcome, not punished. Where the founders still do shifts and are still in the tearoom on Tuesday. Where you're not the doctor of last resort, all the time.

Appreciation isn't garnish here. Families say thank you a lot. Staff say thank you to staff a lot. Emotional effort is treated as real work because it is.

Private billing. Doctor-led. Founder-owned. The structures are there to protect the kind of care we wanted to build, not to extract from it.
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The clinical rooms you'd work in are the rooms we'd bring our own kids to. That's the test we apply to every decision — equipment, staffing, time, tone.

We can be honest with you about what's involved. You'll probably miss some things. What we can tell you, having both walked this road, is that you'll miss the burnout less than you think and the medicine less than you fear.

 

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The next step isn't an application.

It's a 30-minute conversation with one of the founders — emergency-experienced clinicians who built this clinic for the kids and families they wanted it for, and the team they wanted to work alongside. We know exactly what you're weighing up.