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Loo breaks a luxury for swamped regional doctors

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Doctors warn patients are paying the price as overworked specialists forego toilet breaks to stay on top of an insurmountable number of patients and battle burnout.

Thousands of surgeries, appointments and cancer treatments have been cancelled as more than 3500 NSW public hospital doctors down their stethoscopes in a bid to improve working conditions and pay.

A "vicious cycle of burnout" was dri...


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