June’s telehealth and COVID-19 MBS Quick Guide — ready for download
Get the most important MBS telehealth and COVID-19 items for GPs at a glance with AusDoc’s June Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to routine attendance…
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Adriana: The brain dead woman kept alive as a ‘fetal incubator’
The description of Adriana Smith as a fetal incubator is confronting but accurate. The 30-year-old nurse is currently in Emory University Hospital in Georgia in…
Homemade silver remedy leaves patient with the permanent blues: Aussie case report
A homemade silver solution for a flu-like illness left a patient with the permanent blues after he developed argyria, SA doctors report. The 63-year old…
Lawyer calls for patients to join class action against Blackmores’ B6 supplements
Lawyers are investigating a potential class action against vitamin giant Blackmores after patients who took vitamin B6 supplements allegedly developed peripheral neuropathy. Polaris Lawyers founder…
General practice is supposedly dying, so why are investors stalking GP clinics?
If GP corporates run on tiny profit margins, why do they sell for hundreds of millions of dollars? “It’s a good question because it doesn’t…
Medical Must-See: Alarm bells ring after jewellery embedded in boy’s finger
A ring embedded in a boy’s little finger for four weeks led doctors to wonder about parental neglect in this Australian case study. The boy,…
Australia’s first infant RSV immunisation program linked to 57% drop in hospitalisations
Widespread use of nirsevimab in infants may reduce RSV-related hospitalisations by more than half, suggests a real-world study published in the Medical Journal of Australia.…
‘Infuriating and dangerous’: Psychiatrist tries and fails to speak with his patients’ medicinal cannabis prescribers
Medicinal cannabis prescribers are failing to acknowledge concerned correspondence from patients’ regular doctors, a leading psychiatrist says. Professor Richard Harvey has routinely written to the doctors prescribing…
GP builds AI that suggests the Medicare items that boost billings
A GP has built an AI scribe that suggests Medicare items for GPs to claim in real time as it drafts medical notes based on…
GP registrars offered $40,000 to train in Queensland
Almost 600 GP registrars can get a one-off $40,000 payment this year to lessen the financial pain of leaving the hospital system, the Queensland Government…
