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How can Australia have too many doctors, but still not meet patient needs?

  • Written by Richard Murray, Dean of Medicine & Dentistry, James Cook University
imageIf you live in a rural area, you would never think Australia had too many doctors.from shutterstock.com

The statement “we have plenty of doctors in Australia” would probably not pass the pub test. Especially if the pub was in a regional city, a remote town or a less-than-leafy suburb. But it is true all the same - statistically at...

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