With a drip in his arm, this patient came out of a Sydney hospital to support striking doctors

Tuesday is the first of three days of industrial action being taken by public sector doctors in NSW

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Orhan Karakaya has been in and out of hospital his entire adult life because of ulcerative colitis.

Never in that time has he seen New South Wales doctors take strike action, but with a drip in his arm, Karakaya came out to support the rally outside Westmead hospital.

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