Rural Medicine in Australia
Abstract
The Australian rural doctor's scene has been characterised by the image of the rugged individualist, tainted by the isolated alcoholic, the so-called cowboy or individual doctors who could not co-operate in a small town. These negative images have, in the past, been used to strip rural areas of their facilities and to downgrade practice.
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