Podcast: Listen to the psychiatrist who won this year’s Nobel prize for medicine
When Professor Karl Deisseroth was studying medicine in the 1990s, he took a rotation working with psychiatric patients. It would start him down a path…
Paul Smith
Paul is editor of Australian Doctor Group.
Does the term ‘obstetric violence’ obscure the harms resulting from the promotion of ‘normal births’?
“The words being used set an agenda that casts obstetricians as perpetrators.” This was obstetrician Dr Vijay Roach. He was writing in 2023 during a…
Antibiotics for acute appendicitis linked to increased risk of colorectal cancer
Appendicectomy was associated with a 58% lower relative risk of colorectal cancer than antibiotics for acute appendicitis after accounting for individual risk factors, new research…
Has the medical board’s revamped CPD regime worked out? Take the AusDoc survey
It has been nearly three years since the Medical Board of Australia introduced the biggest shake-up in the history of mandatory CPD. Professional development was…
AusDoc reader comments: Top Gun, monochrome doctors and saline chasers
Each week, AusDoc readers post hundreds of comments on our website. Below, we publish a selection, ranging from the need for more characters in medicine to…
Six practical masterclasses to kick off the AAPM National Conference 2026
Delegates to the 2026 AAPM National Conference can choose from six practical masterclasses on Tuesday 13 October, covering billing and payments, practice software, accreditation, AI…
Pharmacists face investigation if they fail to declare financial conflicts when prescribing and dispensing: AHPRA
Prescribing pharmacists could risk an AHPRA investigation if they dispense a prescription without declaring a conflict of interest to patients, the watchdog’s latest guidance suggests.…
From textbooks to internet and ultrasounds: One country doctor’s 50 years of change
When Dr Ian Spencer started his medical training in the 1960s, his mathematics requirement was completed on a hand-driven bookkeeping machine. When he studied obstetrics,…
New medical school graduates offered six-month deferment on AHPRA rego fees
Newly graduated medical students will be allowed to defer paying their registration fees for up to six months under a new AHPRA pilot program. The…
Specialist fees: Inside the health department’s struggles to define a greedy doctor
Minister for Health and Ageing Mark Butler.How can we define a greedy doctor? The language is more restrained, but this is the question at the…
