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Jack Gramenz and Farid Farid

Strike 'dangerous for patients', risky for doctors

Doctors say a planned three-day strike will go ahead without compromising patient safety. (Jack Gramenz/AAP PHOTOS)

Surgeries are being cancelled as the public are warned about under-staffed emergency departments ahead of a rare, unauthorised multi-day health worker strike.

Claims that the first doctors' strike in NSW since the 1990s, beginning Tuesday, would not impact patient care were dismissed by the state's health minister on Monday.

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