Govt to cut time limit for doctors lodging bulk-billed Medicare claims
The Senate is preparing to vote on laws that would cut the time limit for lodging bulk-billed claims from two years after the service took…
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Psychiatrists and the NSW Govt meet in court — can this finally end their battle?
Doctors and the NSW Government will stand before the state’s Industrial Relations Commission this week in an attempt to solve their drawn-out dispute over public…
‘They are devastated’: When your patient discovers stopping semaglutide means the weight returns
Semaglutide is a game changer for patients right up until they stop the treatment, when many face the heartbreak of watching the kilos return. That…
‘CT in a truck’ fleet won’t be ready when national lung cancer screening starts
GPs will start screening patients for lung cancer in July but outback towns will not see the promised mobile CT scanners until at least November,…
Medical Must-See: Read my (enlarged) lips
The cause of this boy’s swollen lips was unsealed based on critical histopathology. The 10-year-old presented to a hospital in Okayama, Japan, with persistent painless…
Doctors sue US Govt claiming it unpublished clinical studies because they contain the words ‘LGBT’ and ‘transgender’
Doctors have accused US health officials of scrubbing their peer-reviewed articles from a government website because they made passing references to LGBTQ patients. Associate Professor…
Surgeon fined $10,000 after sharing photo of comatose patient’s penis with a swastika tattoo
An orthopaedic surgeon who photographed a comatose patient with a swastika tattoo on his penis then shared the image with other doctors has been fined…
‘I knew there was 34cm of water in the practice because of the height chart’: GPs vs Cyclone Alfred
Doctors thought on Saturday that Cyclone Alfred had spared the GP practices of Hervey Bay, north of Brisbane. But in Sunday’s early hours, everything changed.…
Doctors making four million calls to the authority script line every year — but how many requests are rejected?
Doctors are making more than four million phone calls a year to the PBS authority script line despite the vast majority of requests being ticked…
Even more ‘areas of need’ approved for IMG GP recruitment but doctors say the system is failing
The Federal Government is expanding distribution priority areas yet again, with 17 areas including Surfers Paradise and Noosa in Queensland permitted to recruit IMGs who…
