We prepared for a coronavirus crisis that (thankfully) did not arrive. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story May 1, 2020 Letter 155 One Doctor’s View From Inside the Australian Healthcare System By Amaali Lokuge Shonagh Rae The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. For this week’s issue, the newsletter is written by one of our readers, Dr. Amaali Lokuge, an emergency physician at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. When my director cut short his camping holiday on Australia Day, to come back to the emergency department at the Melbourne hospital where I work as an emergency physician, I thought he was unnecessarily sacrificing his life for the sake of his work. Covid-19 was still mainly confined to China. Italy was not yet in crisis and New York wasn’t even on our radar. But in hindsight, his return was prudent. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT The fever clinic attendances surged. We were seeing 30 to 100 extra patients p