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Beckoning GPs to the bush

GPs are harder to find in the bush than a double decaf soy latte, but incoming ACRRM president Professor Richard Murray is optimistic about the future. “We are working right now in a system that is really stacked against rural generalist medicine, and in which there is a severe geographic maldistribution of services and maldistribution according to need,” Professor Murray says. “But there is also probably a once-in-a-generation or more opportunity for change [and] the bush has a lot to teach the city.” Professor Murray, who is set to take up the presidency next month, comes ...