The critical gap in workforce planning: What happens when male GPs become dads?
As we come to the end of Movember, I reflect on the unique challenge of being a dad GP. Men aren’t traditionally good at talking…
Heather Saxena
Heather is a medical reporter for Australian Doctor Group.
Doctors pushed into financial strife by ‘unfair’ AHPRA registration rules
Some doctors have been slugged with double registration fees and pushed into financial stress because AHPRA refused to introduce pro-rata fees, an investigation by the…
AHPRA investigated this doctor then asked for his help
Dr Jacob Koshy spent months under AHPRA investigation before being cleared of wrongdoing. Then, the watchdog came back. But this time, it wanted his help.…
RACGP calls on GPs to share stories of pharmacist prescribing gone wrong
The RACGP is urging GPs to send examples of poor pharmacist prescribing to the Pharmacy Board of Australia as it considers allowing pharmacists across Australia…
Doctor fired for being rude loses $3.8 million lawsuit against Primary Health Care
A fertility doctor terminated for being rude to patients and staff has lost a $3.8 million case against the corporate that fired her, Primary Health…
Rural generalism: Are we selling young doctors a dream that doesn’t exist?
The recent federal announcement recognising rural generalist medicine as a formal field within general practice was widely applauded. At last, the doctors who deliver babies…
Meet the Aussie emergency physician who writes the Emmy award-winning drama ‘The Pitt’
There have been Dr Kildare, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, All Saints, Scrubs and House — TV shows that with varying degrees of success have attempted to…
RACGP and dermatology college strike code of silence pact on GP isotretinoin prescribing
It’s one of the big issues in medicine, one that touches directly on the scope of practice of GPs. Following an application by the RACGP,…
Tick-a-box medicine is draining the heart out of general practice
I felt like puking upon reading the new RACGP template for an adult mental health care plan. I thought to myself that perhaps I won’t…
We’ve built a system where AI provides the empathy and doctors play the bots
Artificial intelligence has mastered chess, art and medical diagnosis. Now it’s apparently beating doctors at something we thought was uniquely human: empathy. A recent review…
