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VISIT SITE EXCLUSIVE: Long waiting lists, Site Web Enter your search burnout doctors and 'greedy' Ad insurance companies: How Australia's health system is at risk of collapse as top surgeon warns 'we're going the way of America' • One of Australia’s leading head and neck surgeons says insurers run the system • Australia's My Health Record platform has been described as 'ancient tech' • Over-worked health professionals are struggling under the strain • Bean counter needs are governing health outcomes while doctors are ignored By WAYNE FLOWER IN MELBOURNE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA PUBLISHED: 09:52 AEST, 2 September 2019 | UPDATED: 10:21 AEST, 2 September 2019 14 Video Editor & Screen View comments Recorder Trim, cut, and rotate video. Add Overworked health professionals fear Australia's health system has been hijacked by transitions & effects to video with greedy insurance company bean counters who are hell bent on profiting off the Pinnacle Studio 23. sick. VISIT SITE Fearing a full-blown health crisis, one of the nation's top head and neck surgeons has broken ranks to warn of impending doom if health professionals' concerns continue to be ignored by those in charge. ADVERTISEMENT Dr Elizabeth Sigston told Daily Mail Australia that Australia's health system had endured a 'slow slide' into turmoil over the past 15 years and threatened to go the Like Follow Daily Mail Daily Mail way of the American and UK health systems. Follow Follow @DailyMail Daily Mail Follow Follow @dailymailuk Daily Mail DON'T MISS Nadia Bartel talks on the phone in Melbourne after her estranged husband Jimmy was pictured in Sydney with his new girlfriend Lauren Mand Calling in the lawyers? 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Dr Sigston said evidence suggested Australia's aging population would only add pressure to Australia's already over-worked health professionals. 'Our health care system is struggling. Our emergency departments are over burdened ... people are being kept in corridors, our emergency physicians are struggling,' she said. 'If you want to be seen in a public outpatient, certainly at Monash Health (in Victoria) the wait is two years or longer for most patients.' While Australians vent their anger across social media on long waiting lists, those working in the health system are themselves falling apart. 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