Cash deficits, politics and the IMG pipeline: Why medical colleges are under the cosh
It will allow them to be registered as specialists and treat patients without any direct assessment or scrutiny by any Australian medical college.
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Dr Death may have been a difficult personality with a misplaced confidence in his own talents.
He may also have been a fraudster willing to cover up his chequered medical past, but he was not criminally negligent and his surgery, at least his surgery at Queensland’s Bundaberg Hospital, killed no-one.