What junior doctors’ unpaid overtime tells us about the toxic side of medicine

By Claire Hooker, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
Alex Broom, Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
Karen Scott, Associate Professor, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
Louise Nash, Associate Professor and Psychiatrist, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney

What’s been described as the largest underpayment class action in Australian legal history has just been settled. Who was allegedly underpaid? Thousands of junior doctors who, subject to court approval, are set to share back-pay of more than a quarter of a million dollars.

Amireh Fakhouri, who brought the claim…

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