Bill shockers: $1099 for an IV push and other tales of US healthcare madness
If anyone needs a reason to be grateful for Australian healthcare — for all its current troubles — they can always look at life in…
Paul Smith
Paul is editor of Australian Doctor Group.
A research black hole? Australia’s gender clinics and their patient outcomes
Last year, there was yet another eruption in the culture wars. It was the angry fallout of a research paper looking at so-called ‘desistence’ rates…
The rise of the robot: This surgeon believes open surgery in Australia will soon be history
In the words of Australian surgeon Professor Tony Costello, It was truly miraculous. He’s referring to a video he watched of a doctor performing a…
The AMA’s million-dollar bust-up — whose cash is it anyway?
The public row rupturing the AMA is, on the surface, about the family finances. AMA WA is in revolt over the cash it is handing…
Suspended GP accused of calling for genocide gets his court date… five years later
A GP accused of calling for genocide against racial and religious groups has finally secured his date in court, five years since he was suspended under…
Opinion: Will the flames of CPD unrest burn out as the medical board expects?
You cannot accuse Dr Anne Tonkin of lacking clarity. Her interview with AusDoc has enraged many — not least because she clearly feels there is…
‘When I started, a brain CT was 24 slices, and now it’s 240’: The menace of incidentalomas
Doctors are once more caught in a testing and diagnostic minefield: the minefield laid by the increasing detection of incidentalomas by increasingly powerful imaging machines.…
Trikafta: The life-changing wonder drug that costs $250,000 a year
Professor Hiran Selvadurai.There are before and after worlds in Professor Hiran Selvadurai’s respiratory ward. The ‘before’ would be a dozen or so children lying in…
The ‘incredibly sad’ turmoil threatening to split the AMA
Professor Steve Robson.Professor Steve Robson says the kicking out of AMA WA members is not a crisis for the federal AMA but an “incredibly sad”…
Hundreds of universal bulk-billing GP clinics missing in action
Over 450 fully bulk-billing clinics closed or switched to charging some patients out-of-pocket fees in the past year, an analysis reveals. The analysis, conducted by…
