Like rats fleeing a sinking ship: Women doctors leave public sector after battling broken system

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Like rats fleeing a sinking ship: Women doctors leave public sector after battling broken system

Orna McGinn
Sinking ship CR Sam Moghadam Khamseh on Unsplash
Women doctors are reluctantly jumping from the “ship of State” to practise privately [Image: Sam Moghadam Khamseh on Unsplash]

Women doctors in despair at not meeting the demands of their under-resourced public sector workplaces are switching to private practice for the autonomy, writes Orna McGinn

Few doctors have a sense of “buy-in” to New Zealand’s restructured health system, according to interim results of the 2023 NZ Women in Medicine workfo
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