No doctor, just videolink after hours in country hospitals

A woman bled to death in the emergency department of a regional NSW hospital in Gulgong, near Mudgee that had no doctors physically present because authorities had replaced face-to-face doctors with treatment via videolink outside business hours. "We couldn’t believe this is what a community has to live with," said Hayley Olivares, whose mother died from haemorrhaging while being treated by a doctor over teleconference. In another example of the practice, a non-verbal patient who turned up to an emergency department in central-western NSW was offered a video conference with a doctor in Switzerland.... https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-couldn-t-believe-it-woman-bleeds-to-death-in-nsw-hospital-with-no-doctors-on-site-20201011-p563z1.html#comments