I am a junior doctor working in a Brisbane hospital. I recently completed a PhD investigating the use of eHealth strategies to improve community access to relevant health information, with a particular focus on low socioeconomic communities and their needs.1 Like many products of the postgraduate medical course, I came to medicine after studying other disciplines — economics and government as part of a Bachelor of Arts, and medical sciences as part of a Bachelor of Science. I’ve long had an interest in policy, and after several years of community-based field work in a community with an average household income of $25 000, and two years of hospital-based clinical experience, I have come to realise that the health system fails to integrate services to provide a systematic approach to dealing with patients’ needs.

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