Health Minister Simeon Brown's bracing for tension at a meeting with 200 senior doctors, ahead of strike action. 

Their walkout - after rejecting a $160million pay offer - will see 6,300 elective procedures cancelled, and almost 13,000 specialists assessments delayed. 

Brown's slamming what he says is unethical, and a case of politics over patients. 

He told Mike Hosking that the unions haven't been acting in good faith. 

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Health Minister Simeon Brown's bracing for tension at a meeting with 200 senior doctors, ahead of strike action.&nbsp;
Their walkout - after rejecting a $160million pay offer - will see 6,300 elective procedures cancelled, and almost 13,000 specialists assessments delayed.&nbsp;
Brown's slamming what he says is unethical, and a case of politics over patients.&nbsp;
He told Mike Hosking that the unions haven't been acting in good faith.&nbsp;
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Simeon Brown: Health Minister says unions are focusing on politics, not patients

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