GP wins court fight after former clinic accused her of poaching patients
Dr Nicole Chater (Source: Instagram).A GP has won a court battle with her former workplace after she was accused of poaching patients when she set…
Heather Saxena
Heather is a medical reporter for Australian Doctor Group.
Delivering quadruplets from overseas IVF: ‘I was worried we would find an extra baby’
Dr Scott White.As consultant obstetrician Dr Scott White watched the caesarean surgery to deliver quadruplets, he had one pressing thought — just how many babies…
‘I was drowning in full view of everyone’: A doctor’s story of domestic abuse
Domestic abuse does not discriminate. Professional, social and economic status is no safeguard. Nor is gender. Here, a male practising psychiatrist shares his description of…
Psychiatrist who sexually harassed nurse suspended for 15 weeks, partly due to workforce shortages
A married psychiatrist who sexually harassed a nurse colleague has been suspended for 15 weeks after escaping a longer ban due to workforce shortages. The…
Bulk-billing is putting GPs in a Freakonomics trap
Alex Mckenzie. Photo: RACGP.The overarching GP conversation at the RACGP’s recent Practice Owners Conference was, unsurprisingly, how to keep practices surviving amid rising overheads and…
‘Nudge letters’ reduced GP pathology requests by 42,000 a year: Lancet study
GPs who received ‘nudge letters’ from health officials cut back on frequently ordered pathology requests, according to new research on GPs who did not know…
Anaesthetist’s 370-page ‘picture book’ costs him $30,000 for breaching patient privacy
An anaesthetist who self-published a book of photos from surgical cases that sold just eight copies has been fined $30,000. The 370-page The Anaesthetic Picture…
Tributes flow for the inspiring Dr Nikhil Autar: ‘He never wasted a moment, no matter the physical pain’
Dr Nikhil Autar was 17 when doctors gave him a 10-20% chance of surviving to 21. But despite his acute myeloid leukaemia diagnosis, he lived…
GP struck off for five years after writing bogus medical exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines and masks
A GP has been struck off for at least five years for issuing 311 cursory or inaccurate COVID-19 vaccine and face mask exemptions. Dr Denes…
‘You are members of an uncaring profession’: The GP addicted to pethidine who changed Dr Roger Sexton’s life
Dr Roger Sexton. Photo: Facebook/Doctors’ Health SA.Dr Roger Sexton remembers the solo GP who ignited his passion for doctors’ health. It was the mid-1990s. The…
