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‘Living week-to-week’: doctors struggle to stay rural

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After the cost of daycare fees, rent, electricity and grocery bills, a young rural doctor only just gets by.

"I'm full-time to make ends meet and... I am living week-to-week," the NSW intern, who did not want to be named, told AAP.

"That's not something I thought about when I was going through med school."

The mother-of-three is passionate about caring for rural people, but the average pay in t...


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