Why Dr Andrea Merrill only plays Taylor Swift during her surgeries
Taylor Swift has accompanied surgeon Dr Andrea Merrill on every era of her medical journey — from a shy teenager to finally taking charge of…
Tag: Medical culture
‘Hospitals could owe some junior doctors $60,000’: Dr Gaby Bolton’s class action triumph
“Doctors could easily be owed $60,000. And for some registrars — particularly those in very heavy overtime surgical specialties — I think it would be…
Win for junior doctors as hospital bosses abandon court fight over unpaid overtime
Junior doctors appear to have won their battle over unpaid overtime with Peninsula Health, which runs Frankston Hospital, withdrawing its appeal against last year’s landmark…
Surgeons’ bad behaviour improves under the ‘unblinking eye’: Aussie study
Rude remarks, sarcastic comments and insults in operating theatres seem to drop off if surgical staff feel the gaze of watchful eyes, a novel Adelaide study shows. Surgeons, anaesthetists, assistants and scrub nurses…
‘Inexcusable’: Medical training of 486 trainee doctors badly affected by bullying, harassment and discrimination
“It’s inexcusable.” These are the words used by the chair of the Medical Board of Australia last week to describe the fact that 35% of…
RACGP’s baffling move to erase human interaction from mentor relationships
Sometimes I feel like an alien. What type of world have I crashed into? By the start of the dreaded CPD year of 2023, I…
When will the dark corridors of the Australian hospital system be safe for female doctors?
There has been a truly miserable run of media stories revealing the ongoing struggles of female doctors to get through the rigours of medical training…
Will hospital bosses now listen to doctors? Why the lessons of the Lucy Letby scandal are not simple
We’ll probably never know what drove British paediatric nurse Lucy Letby to murder seven of her tiny patients and attempt to kill six more. What…
‘More to do’ on AMA gender equality, says vice-president
The AMA has existed for 60 years yet has had just two female presidents: Dr Rosanna Capolingua and Professor Kerryn Phelps. In 2019, it set targets…
As I go grey, will patients assume I’m too old to be a good doctor?
There are several certainties in the world, and one is we will age. But unfortunately, there are some unforeseen consequences, other than greying and wrinkles,…
