How these two ‘dinosaur’ GPs have survived the last 40 years working together
A pair of self-described ‘GP dinosaurs’ have just celebrated 40 years of working together in a partnership they say has evolved much like a successful…
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Reaping what RFK Jr helped to sow? Measles is back in the US
There is irony of a dark kind in the fact that Robert F Kennedy Jr’s appointment as US health secretary comes at a time when…
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…
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…
It’s the world’s deadliest cosmetic procedure yet Brazilian butt lifts are still being done in Australia
The notorious Brazilian butt lift remains a controversial procedure, with its latest version now believed to have resulted in the death of a young woman in the…
Minister pledges to lift gag law that stops doctors broaching VAD with patients
Doctors will no longer risk being referred to AHPRA for raising voluntary assisted dying as an option for terminally ill patients under a Victorian Government…
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,…
