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A senior doctor has warned Australians will soon no longer be able to assume that if they get sick there'll be an ambulance, hospital bed or doctor to take care of them.
"You'll pick up the phone and there'll be an ambulance, there'll be a doctor waiting at the hospital, there'll be a bed for you. But that can't happen any more. "And I also felt quite bad in talking to patients, that I felt that I wasn't giving them the level of care that I would like to give just simply because I was stretched to my absolute thinnest."
"And that although there are challenges to meet in every job, that the challenges are not daily... to the point that it does cause that burnout and exhaustion." "I'm an emergency medicine physician and I've been working in emergency medicine for well over 20 years now," she told 7.30.