Tactical blunder? Professor Ian Hickie on the mass psychiatrist resignations
The well-known psychiatrist says part of the issue is a failure by politicians to understand what the specialty even does.
“If surgeons walked out tomorrow and there was no surgery, it takes 24 hours for politicians to fix it.
“If the emergency room physicians walked out tomorrow, or there were no anaesthetists tomorrow, the same thing.
“No oncologists tomorrow or cardiologists tomorrow? Okay, that might take a week or so.”
Professor Ian Hickie, one of Australia’s best-known psychiatrists, is talking about his colleagues’ dispute with the NSW Government.
