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In the bustling hallway of a trauma ward , Kate Martin flips the pages closed on a patient's file after a quick consultation with her team. She leads her colleagues at pace around the ward of the Royal Melbourne Hospital on their morning rounds. The trauma surgeon grabs a squirt of sanitiser and is rubbing it into her hands as she moves on to the next patient. There's a young Argentine man lying in the bed.
'An unrestrained passenger in a high-speed motor vehicle crash,' a medico opposite Dr Martin begins, before detailing his injuries and hospital stay so far. Road trauma causes a 'huge chunk' of the cases Dr Martin treats, and she thinks it's often 'under acknowledged'. 'We focus on the death toll but behind all of those deaths, is a huge number of patients that are injured — they survive, but they've got life changing injuries.' 2023 was the deadliest year on Australia's roads in more than five years
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