Breaking news: RN prescribing expected to be put on hold amid IT issues
The planned 1 October rollout of PBS prescribing by endorsed RNs is expected to be temporarily shelved amid concerns that clinical software and health services…
Paul Smith
Paul is editor of Australian Doctor Group.
Nearly 90% of medical board’s fast-tracked IMGs have ended up in metro areas
Just 11% of the IMGs brought into Australia under AHPRA’s controversial fast-track pathway are working in rural areas of need, an evaluation has found. The…
‘Taking off like a rocket’: Butler blasts specialist fees at the 95th percentile
Specialist fees for colonoscopies and knee replacements are “taking off like a rocket” once they hit the 95th percentile, Mark Butler has said, telling the…
Dr Max Mollenkopf hits out at RACGP over accreditation demand for ‘climate change champions’
Dr Max Mollenkopf says the RACGP has “absolutely stooged practice owners” over its accreditation demands for practices to have “climate change champions”. The high-profile GP…
AusDoc staff recognised in major journalism and science writing honours
AusDoc staff have been recognised in two major publishing and journalism awards. This year’s Best Australian Science Writing anthology includes our feature, ‘Darkness in the…
Toxic politics, transphobia and the gender wars: AusDoc interviews Dr Jillian Spencer
“Walking past those damn trans pride flags every day, talking to people while they were wearing rainbow lanyards and pronoun badges was dispiriting. Listening to…
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go! Power politics and the operating theatre playlist
It is potentially one of the most divisive issues in medicine: the music on the surgeon’s operating theatre playlist. The often-cited justification for allowing them…
Glioblastoma and the legacy of Professor Richard Scolyer’s ‘patient zero’ immunotherapy experiment
Professor Richard Scolyer. Photo: AAP.“I didn’t know if his brain was going to blow up or not.” Dr Helen Wheeler is talking about Professor Richard…
‘Flabbergasted’: Lawyer behind anti-Semitism definition says AHPRA adoption will silence doctors
A US lawyer who played the lead role in drawing up what became the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism says he is “flabbergasted”…
Dr Coleen Wood had an MI in a consult with a patient — and didn’t realise
Dr Coleen Wood.Dr Coleen Wood was at the start of a busy morning clinic early in the COVID-19 pandemic when she felt a niggle that…
