A personal checklist for the time-poor clinician
In these times of health reform mired in complexity and politics, I found myself recently wondering where physicians with a particular concern about health inequities for rural and remote Australia, especially public health physicians like me dealing daily with their distribution and determinants, might turn for guidance.
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