‘I feel guilt knowing what it has done to my partner’: The sacrifices of IMGs on the 10-year moratorium
Dr Nicholas Bredenkamp says he has often wondered if he should have trained in another specialty
The government’s overhaul of GP workforce rules last week allows thousands of IMGs in rural areas to move to bigger cities without losing their Medicare provider number.
The Minister for Health Mark Butler says it will solve a workforce crisis; rural doctors say it will make it far, far worse and that Peter has simply been robbed to pay Paul.
But in the middle of this debate are the doctors whose ability to establish a life in Australia are, whatever your own view, controlled by these political forces.
Dr Nicholas Bredenkamp, an IMG from the UK, is one of them.
