Despite all our efforts, the boulder is barely halfway up the mountain
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.
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- Max Kamien1
- W Ian Cameron2
- 1 Discipline of General Practice, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA.
- 2 NSW Rural Doctors Network, Newcastle, NSW.
Correspondence: mkamien@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
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