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.
Dr Jayant Patel. Photo: AAP

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.