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Rural maternity units: how will they have a future?

L Gay Hawksworth
MJA 2008; 188 (12): 731-732

To the Editor: Pesce’s criticism of midwifery practice at Mareeba District Hospital1 requires rebuttal. His implication that the service is inefficient or pandering to “the powerful sway of maternity care politics” is incorrect and insults those who struggle to provide woman-centred care in a system focused on doctors.

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