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Health
Stephanie Gardiner

'Living week-to-week': doctors struggle to stay rural

New data shows rural communities generally have poorer access to healthcare. (David Mariuz/AAP PHOTOS)

After the cost of daycare fees, rent, electricity and grocery bills, a young rural doctor only just gets by.

"I'm full-time to make ends meet and ... I am living week-to-week,"  the NSW intern, who did not want to be named, told AAP.

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