Hundreds of registrars who ‘passed’ UK college exam 18 months ago told they actually failed
Almost 20% of registrars who sat a September 2023 exam were given the wrong results — mostly passes when they should have failed — after…
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Should the health department boss be earning $470,000 more than Mark Butler? Jacqui Lambie doesn’t think so
Maverick Senator Jacqui Lambie wants public servant salaries capped at $430,000, slamming the fact that top departmental secretaries earn $1 million a year when the…
Medical Must-See: Doctors get the sac from child’s internal iliac artery
Iranian surgeons have removed a 4cm x 4cm aneurysmal sac after diagnosing an idiopathic left internal iliac artery aneurysm in an 11-year-old boy. The previously…
Trump’s ‘biological truth’ of two sexes and the medical mutilation of children
It is worth running the quote in full, so there is no ambiguity. “Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilising a growing…
Doctors allowed to resect seven-year-old’s brain tumour as Jehovah’s Witnesses opt against court fight
Emergency surgery to resect a seven-year-old’s brain tumour will go ahead after the child’s Jehovah’s Witness parents decided not to fight doctors in court over…
Death by Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V? Copy–pasting of clinical notes ‘an epidemic’
Indiscriminate copy–pasting of clinical notes between records is causing “note bloat” and infecting records with errors, according to two papers in Internal Medicine Journal. A…
GP charged with manslaughter after allegedly assisting at fatal homebirth
A GP ordered to stand trial for manslaughter in relation to a homebirth where the mother died did not tell paramedics she was a doctor,…
From psych inpatient to ECT and now medical school: Sam Diprose’s story
At 4am on a psych ward, inpatient Sam Diprose met the doctor who changed his life. “He shared with me that he had a friend…
The mildest since COVID-19? Top flu expert’s predictions for the 2025 season
Falling GP flu vaccinations and a streak of early seasons show the importance of fast and widespread immunisation when 2025 stocks arrive, says a top…
‘Things were going great and then I was diagnosed with cancer’: Dr Danielle Allan
Dr Danielle Allan was enjoying life as a rural generalist when a suddenly swollen and sore right leg signalled yet another curveball that would change…
