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Patients and doctors face language barriers
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As Australia becomes an increasingly multicultural nation, there's concern that diverse communities are being let down by Medicare. Doctors say the current funding doesn't cover the time they would like to spend with patients for whom English is not their first language. That story by Deborah Groarke for SBS News, produced by Praba Maheswaran for SBS Tamil.
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