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Why doctors won't cop legislated silence

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Two Australian doctors have taken to the pages of the prestigious journal, the BMJ to make their international colleagues aware of the extraordinary assault on medical ethics contained in the recently enacted Border Force Act 2015. I have also received an email on behalf on the President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Laureate...

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