I am about to retire: Here’s my advice to other doctors in their search for a meaningful career
It’s never too early – or too late – to create a career that’s your own. It’s always the right time to keep the door…
Tag: Culture of medicine
Healing with words: a physician’s lament
The practice of medicine has always posed significant challenges, alongside its many rewards. Sadly, doctor burnout is not a new phenomenon. And the added strain…
Doctors defrauding Medicare is not the problem – it’s Medicare itself
Just after the media blow-up on what is, taken at face value, the biggest fraud scandal in the nation’s history, a behind-the-scenes bureaucrat named Brett…
AusDoc community platform: Posting your comments, sharing stories and discussing tricky clinical cases
Last month, we launched our new community platform. Like Facebook, it allows doctors to post their views, ask questions, discuss (de-identified) clinical cases and connect…
Female doctors twice as likely as their male counterparts not to be called ‘doctor’: JAMA study
A US study of how patients address doctors has found that female doctors are twice as likely to be called by their first name in…
Burnout and compassion fatigue are putting everyone at risk
The toll of COVID-19 on healthcare workers has been brutal, with many wanting to call it quits. The WHO says burnout, coupled with an ageing…
Hey, Dr Nisselle, you were lucky – we were on call for 156 hours!
I must respond to Dr Paul Nisselle’s article ‘How we became doctors in the old days — in 8 steps’, a Medical Observer opinion piece,…
How we became doctors in the old days – in 8 steps
Go back to the 1950s, and the progress through to established practice was very different — both personally and professionally — from the way it…
AusDoc comments: the $25 text consult, losing a VAD patient and more ‘GPs should…’
The AusDoc comments section has evolved into a core part of our community. Here, we republish a selection of your views that capture the conversation — its…
Why the junior doctor title is an insult and needs to go
Clinical Professor Scarlett McNally, an English orthopaedic surgeon, believes it is time to drop the term ‘junior doctor’, arguing that “it is demeaning and anachronistic…
