Why I’d support a rule restricting GPs to 25 patients a day
WARNING: This article contains disturbing ideas and will upset some readers. The British Medical Association (BMA) is recommending that British GPs increase the average length…
Tag: Doctors’ health
The medical board should ask two simple questions before forcing older doctors to undergo health checks
The Medical Board of Australia in trying to ‘retire’ incompetent/incapacitated senior doctors is going about it the wrong way. The board’s primary responsibility is to…
The medical board’s plan for mandatory health checks on older doctors is age discrimination
The Medical Board of Australia proposal for mandatory examinations and cognitive assessments for doctors aged 70 or older raises critical ethical questions. Profiling a specific…
Are doctors and illicit drugs an innately dangerous mix? This GP says no
Should regularly using illicit drugs away from work automatically disqualify you from practising medicine? Some argue that doctors using recreational drugs hurts the medical profession’s…
What three doctors’ health experts think of the medical board’s push for mandatory health assessments of doctors over 70
“It’s like being an actor. “The best time to leave is when you’re on centrestage, the crowd is roaring for more and bouquets are being…
I don’t need the medical board to tell me when I’m too old to practise
I am a one legged, pacemaker-driven, 80-year-old GP, and I am still working three days a week in a busy, CBD practice. I also do…
Mandatory health checks for older doctors — will the board’s plan reduce patient harm?
The Medical Board of Australia’s consultation paper on its plan for mandatory health checks for older doctors runs to 92 pages. It is heavy with…
Doctor suicide: ‘It’s not always one big thing but a thousand paper cuts’
When a GP took their own life earlier this year, Dr Sarah Kleinman experienced unwanted but tragically familiar feelings of guilt and shock. In the…
‘The children were sent to an expected death … We could do nothing’: The memories haunting Dr Michael Clements
Dr Michael Clements tries to avoid watching the bloody images coming out of Gaza. It is not because he does not care but because of…
Professor Steve Robson: The story of my own near-suicide and how I came through
There is a paragraph in what follows where Professor Steve Robson, the AMA president, writes: “As someone who has experienced the most profound feelings of…
