How Mark Butler’s bulk-billing calculations stack up (or not)
Politically, releasing 10 pages of modelling purporting to show how the expansion of bulk-billing incentives to all Australians would make mass bulk-billing profitable was a…
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‘Young lives destroyed’: Why this GP has set up a long COVID clinic
Dr David Fineberg was shocked when he saw previously fit soldiers who could barely rise from a chair as a result of long COVID. …
Use selfie lights and polarised filter paper to improve smartphone photos of skin lesions: dermatologists
Attachable ring lights used to take better selfies can also help doctors take better clinical photos of skin lesions, suggests guidance published in JAMA Dermatology.…
‘They were scared I was going to be killed’: The Aussie doctor who read his own death notice
This story has been updated. See footnote. Dr Mohammed Mustafa’s medical mission to Gaza became so dangerous that the aid organisation that sent him prepared…
Are smoking cessation medications safe in pregnancy?
Dr Duong (Danielle) Tran is a UNSW Sydney epidemiologist who has just completed a major review on the effects of smoking cessation medications in pregnancy.…
‘I left medicine, I stepped away, I became a comedian’: Adam Kay on the bad day that changed his life
Adam Kay is a former obstetric registrar who walked away from medicine after a “bad day at work”, one of those days that was so…
Government apologises to journalists for false chemo claims… oncologists still waiting
The NSW Government has apologised to the media for falsely declaring that 468 chemotherapy sessions had been cancelled as a result of the strike by…
Is this person safe to use a firearm? Health checks for gun owners placing GPs in a ‘complex situation’
GPs are being tasked with conducting health assessments that ensure that gun owners in WA have the physical and mental capacity to shoot straight, hold…
Woman gives birth to another patient’s baby following embryo mix-up
IVF regulation is in the spotlight after a mix-up led to a woman giving birth to a baby not related to her, with little chance…
‘Mistaken and misguided’ doctors at risk of suicide under AHPRA’s name-and-shame rules, top GP warns
Some doctors will be at high risk of suicide under new AHPRA rules that will permanently list tribunal findings related to sexual misconduct on their…
