As the year draws to a close, we want to thank you — our readers.

This is the final newsletter before the AusDoc editorial team goes on its annual break.

We are given privileged insight into the lives of doctors when we talk to them about their work, about the good and the bad, about the very real pressures and ultimate rewards of medicine.

I hope all the stories we’ve written have been informed by a genuine understanding of the realities of what it is to be a doctor in Australia.