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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Damon Cronshaw

'Extraordinarily long': patients wait up to two years to see ENT specialist

Cass Button, 11, at home in Mayfield. Picture by Peter Lorimer

Long waits to see specialists in the Hunter's public hospital system have pushed families into private health insurance to prevent their children from suffering.

Mayfield boy Cassius Button, 11, has had multiple ENT [ear, nose and throat] surgeries since the age of five.

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