Human touch carries significant therapeutic power but is it a skill doctors are losing through fear?
During a resuscitation, would it be such a burden to have a designated team member whose role is simply to hold the patient’s hand? From…
Dr Louise Burns
Dr Louise Burns is an ACRRM GP registrar who plans to complete her training and practise in the Atherton and Mareeba regions in Far North Queensland.
Reopening Medicare offices would shift the rebate blame game from GPs to politicians
As a GP registrar, I fear for the future of general practice. I love what I do, but I feel that is becoming the only…
I’d rather be a medical MacGyver in the bush than a cog in the city
After reading some of the negative comments recently in response to rural and remote medicine being recognised as a subspecialty, my initial reaction was defensive.…
Lessons from Narnia: If GPs reach for the impossible, they’ll move mountains
When I was five, I wanted to be Aslan, the kind, selfless king of Narnia. He was a talking lion who befriended a group of…
