"Orthopaedic clinics have the highest attendance of any outpatient service in Australia, while fractures remain the most common type of injury recorded in emergency department presentations, with almost 407,000 cases nationwide in 2024-25 alone.
Yet when Lachlan Peden broke his elbow playing social netball last week, he managed to skip the hospital altogether."
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