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Sydney Morning Herald on 2021-03-19 08:02

Inquiry told of long hours, shortages of regional doctors and nurses

Witnesses reported 48-hour shifts and a Snowy Mountains hospital was left without a doctor for four months at a parliamentary inquiry on Friday.

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