‘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 if far, far worse and that Peter has simply been robbed to pay Paul.
