Factors affecting female or male consultant stress in an Australian teaching hospital

• 1 Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW
• 2 Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW
• 4 Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney. Correspondence: Dr Deborah H Yates, Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010.

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