Solving the shortage of general practitioners in remote  and rural Australia: a Sisyphean task?

Kamien, Max; Cameron, W Ian

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00743.x

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Despite all our efforts, the boulder is barely halfway up the mountain

When I set up in practice at Kununoppin [Western Australia] in 1958, the hospital was administered by a teenage girl working 3 days per week, the bed average was 20 and if I had a problem, the Medical Department would solve it.

1 Discipline of General Practice, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA.
2 NSW Rural Doctors Network, Newcastle, NSW.

Correspondence: mkamien@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

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