To the Editor: The next challenge for medicine in Australia, in Duckett’s opinion, will be the need to provide for the “very different expectations . . . and a greater sense of entitlement” of baby boomers, as they reach old age and have more need for health services, in and out of hospital.1
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- 1. Duckett SJ. Are we ready for the next big thing? Med J Aust 2009; 190: 687-688. <MJA full text>
- 2. Medicine and politics. BMJ 1967; 1: 555-559.
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