Junior doctors across multiple states and territories are banding together to sue health services over unpaid overtime, excessive hours and dangerous rostering. 9News
Doctor Lucy Crook said the centre of the issue was the dangers of treating patients when doctors are exhausted.Doctor Lucy Crook said she was constantly hearing stories of doctors wanting to leave the healthcare industry.
She said no one got into the job thinking it would be easy but now a significant number were thinking about leaving the profession.Lawyer Hayden Stephens is leading the class action which sue health services in Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. "To get to the point where a significant proportion of us are saying we are not only going to get a new job or leave our current health service, we are completely going to leave the profession and do something else... I think that has to start ringing alarm bells."
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