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Emergency care doctors – ‘off-task and in the wrong places’
Abstract
It’s virtually impossible to calculate whether South Africa has a shortage of emergency doctors and nurses until they are properly deployed to where the greatest needs are – and have sufficient ancillary support to ensure that they don’t spend chunks of their time doing ‘other people’s jobs’.
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Chris Bateman, HMPG, South Africa
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Date published: 2014-10-14
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