Are junior doctors really ‘clinical marshmallows’?
A misfired management email describing junior doctors as potential “clinical marshmallows” for placing lifestyle before career has sparked anger, an apology and, of course —…
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Half of GP registrars worse off compared with final year of hospital training
More than half of GP registrars are earning less than they did in their final year of pre-vocational hospital training, with many trainees doing hospital locum work to…
‘Like Tinder for doctors’: Registrar breaks up with agencies to start his own locum recruitment app
A surgical registrar who resorted to cold-calling hospitals to find locum jobs has built an app that he hopes will compete with locum agencies. With…
Psychiatrist mass exodus continues with ‘urgent’ arbitration hearing to fix crisis now eight weeks away
The dispute between public psychiatrists and the NSW Government remains unresolved, with an “urgent” five-day arbitration hearing set for 17 March. Mental health minister Rose…
‘I did not turn up for work this morning and I felt lost’: Psychiatrist Dr Suzy Goodison on resigning and the coming catastrophe
Dr Suzy Goodison is one of the NSW psychiatrists who resigned from the crumbling public mental health system this morning. Ministers continue to ignore pleas…
‘Crisis? It’s going to be catastrophic’: We speak to one of the NSW hospital psychiatrists left behind
Two hundred public psychiatrists will resign on Tuesday unless the NSW Government executes a massive turnaround on pay and conditions. Adjunct Professor Chris Ryan is…
Queensland hints it could restart physician assistant recruitment
Doctors have warned health officials against hiring more physician assistants to work in public hospitals after a senior bureaucrat hinted it was on the agenda.…
Healthcare system faces meltdown after 200 hospital psychiatrists resign — AusDoc speaks with one of them
The clock is ticking on one of the biggest crises in the Australian public hospital system. In seven days, more than 200 staff psychiatrists in…
Dr Nick Coatsworth warns of ‘specialist pay arms race’ as 200 public hospital psychiatrists threaten to quit
Dr Nick Coatsworth has attacked threats from more than 200 of the 260 psychiatrists working in NSW public hospitals to quit next week, saying the…
Mayor bans villagers from ‘contracting illnesses requiring medical care’ in response to doctor shortages
Forget doctors, forget hospitals, forget wonder drugs and say goodbye to those interminable debates about where the money is coming from to fund it all.…
