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| Authors | V Grech S Attard Montalto C Savona Ventura |
| Abstract | Malta exhibts many secular western trends including declining birth rates, declining fertility rates and increasing numbers of single parents. Moreover, the number of practising paediatricians is continually rising. This is expected to have a significant impact on private practice, which is widely used by local doctors to supplement low (by European standards) salaries. Like Dr. Tertius Lydgate in George Eliot's ‘Middlemarch', many doctors may find this a further compelling reason to leave Malta in order to seek greener pastures. |
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| Journal | Malta Medical Journal |
| Volume | 18 Supplement |
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| Date | 01/12/2006 |
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| Key words | declining birth rates, paediatrics, private practice |