The long, painful wait to see a public medical specialist | ABC NEWS
Pensioner Suzanne Luder has been on the public wait list to see a gastroenterologist for two years.
She eventually forked out around $1,000 to be treated in the private system as she couldn’t cope with her agonising pain.
A parliamentary inquiry will soon investigate the rising costs of seeing a specialist in Australia and how access can be improved.
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