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Earlier this week, Mark Butler took to the floor of federal Parliament to talk about the wonders of his Medicare urgent care clinics. He had…
Thinking back to my time as a final-year medical student in the emergency department, there was always a nagging sense of being in the way…
Imagine being questioned about complex technical knowledge in front of your peers, supervisors and members of the public – knowing that a wrong answer could…
Do you sometimes imagine that you are trapped in a submarine, in the darkest depths of the ocean, under the pressure of tons of seawater? …
The drug semaglutide, commonly known by the brand names Ozempic or Wegovy, was originally developed to help people with type 2 diabetes manage their blood…
I need my readers to help me with some advice about how to make amends for an incident that occurred in 2007. It happened on the…
I recently had the opportunity to attend the annual congress of the US Center for Inquiry – an organisation promoting science and reason, and countering…
We all have rusted-on patients, and our interactions with them differ depending on that complex flux between what they think they want and what we…
Australia’s second-largest private health insurer, Bupa, has recently started offering its members three free GP telehealth consultations a year. This follows other insurers, such as nib, offering…
I am a middle-aged GP. As such, I have a while to go before I am likely to be subject to the mandatory health check…
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