The “Cam affair”: an isolated incident or destined to be repeated?

Van Der Weyden, Martin B

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb05825.x

Topics

Health services administration

The problems of staff and funding shortages implicated in this affair may not be confined to the hospitals in question

The Medical Journal of Australia, Sydney, NSW.

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