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Solving the shortage of general practitioners in remote and rural Australia: a Sisyphean task?
Author(s) -
Kamien Max,
Cameron W Ian
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00743.x
Subject(s) - economic shortage , officer , citation , library science , management , task (project management) , psychology , operations research , sociology , media studies , political science , engineering , government (linguistics) , computer science , law , linguistics , philosophy , economics
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. Today, the bed average is 14.5, a number that includes 10 residents in the permanent care facility, the hospital administration requires 3.6 full-time employees and if ever I have a problem, the Medical Department has almost certainly caused it. — Dr John Radunovich, addressing the Country Medical Foundation in 1993, tionalised”