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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Humbug, health and humanity: A patient's tale of care in a public teaching hospital [Commentary by Michael Walsh, pp. 139–140]

Narelle Scotford

Australian Health Review 22(4) 135 - 138
Published: 1999

Abstract

Humbug is the word used by traditional Aborigines in the remote communities of the Northern Territory for anything that goes wrong. Red tape, any contact with any sort of government organisation and just plain old bullshit.

https://doi.org/10.1071/AH990135

© AHHA 1999

Committee on Publication Ethics

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