This opinion piece is about the ludicrously high legal costs claimed for in a medical negligence claim. The only facts I have to work with…
One thing that pisses me off, as a late-career doctor, is the number of younger GPs who seem to be scared to prescribe certain S4…
Of late we have been reading more and more about violent crime linked to alleged failings of the mental health system, but little about the…
When I was a medical student in the 1960s, our lecturers and tutors, all white and male, were a stone-faced mob, devoid of humour and…
I must respond to Dr Sue Ieraci’s question, “Why does doctor technophobia persist?”, by stating that I have always been keen to adopt new technologies,…
“And a Merry Christmas to you Guv.” The words sounded familiar but were out of context and dripping with sarcasm. I had just arrived in…
As a part-time scribe, medico-legal adviser and confirmed luddite, the following brings a warm glow to the cockles of my heart. Whither AI? The Supreme…
We all have rusted-on patients, and our interactions with them differ depending on that complex flux between what they think they want and what we…
AusDoc recently published the results of a survey designed to determine the annual running costs of being a doctor. That is, the up-front, out-of-pocket expenses,…
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…
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