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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