Doctor displacement:  a political agenda or  a health care imperative?

Brooks, Peter M; Mitchell, Charles A

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02462.x

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To the Editor: The Journal’s Editor is a man of words and we love him for it, but, as Lord Tennyson said: “For words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within” (In memoriam A.H.H., 1850).

1 University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, QLD.
2 School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD.

Correspondence: p.brooks@uq.edu.au

1. Van Der Weyden MB. Doctor displacement: a political agenda or a health care imperative [editorial]? Med J Aust 2008; 189: 608-609. <eMJA full text> <MJA full text>
2. National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission. A healthier future for all Australians — interim report December 2008. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 2009. http://www.nhhrc.org.au/internet/nhhrc/publishing.nsf/Content/interim-report-december-2008 (accessed Mar 2009).
3. Chen L, Evans T, Anand S, et al. Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis. Lancet 2004; 364: 1984-1990.

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