Working together to ensure health care access for doctors

Kay, Margaret P; Dawes, Victoria

doi:10.5694/mja2.50421

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Physicians share a collective responsibility to support their peers in the help‐seeking process

Suggesting that a doctor should “go to a doctor” sounds simple. However, the reality can be very different.1 This article considers the complexity that underpins this concept.

1 University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD
2 Queensland Doctors' Health Programme, Brisbane, QLD

Correspondence: m.kay1@uq.edu.au

Competing interests:

Margaret Kay and Victoria Dawes are employees of Queensland Doctors' Health Programme (QDHP), which has clinical and research expertise in doctors' health and advocates for doctors' health. QDHP is an independent service supported through funding from the Medical Board of Australia. This funding is distributed via the Doctors' Health Services to ensure that the funding received is provided at arm's length.

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