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Who do psychiatrists turn to when they need therapy? In Professor Brett McDermott’s case, a fellow psychiatrist eventually came to his aid, but not before…
There is no escaping that the gathering of the country’s various health ministers last Friday carried a historical significance when it comes to health reform.…
The Queensland Government has introduced draft laws to make GPs’ ‘wages’ completely exempt from payroll tax. After a multi-year saga of state tax collectors trying…
They have been part of the specialty for 40 years but have they changed hearts and minds.
A registrar who campaigned to reduce AHPRA registration fees for doctors on parental leave says the changes announced this week are positive but not enough.…
Nurses have received the green light to prescribe ‘in partnership’ with doctors or nurse practitioners from mid-2025, including S8 drugs for cancer and palliative care.…
Leading endocrinologist Professor Jonathan Shaw was on holiday on K’gari (Fraser Island) off the coast of Queensland, with the patchy reception that entails, when he…
AHPRA has been urged to pay greater attention to whether complaints are being lodged against doctors subject to domestic and family violence. This week, the…
A woman with obesity and PCOS who tried unsuccessfully to conceive for years did not realise she was finally pregnant until she was in labour,…
Ophthalmologists have pointed out an error in the NSW pharmacy trial prescribing guidelines — one that ends up confusing between two different manifestations of herpes…
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