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…
Paul Smith
Paul is editor of Australian Doctor Group.
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
George Michael. Photo: Getty Images.It is potentially one of the most divisive issues in medicine: the music on the surgeon’s operating theatre playlist. The often-cited…
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…
AHPRA and anti-Semitism — AusDoc readers respond
The debate on AHPRA’s decision to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Working Definition of Antisemitism is complex. Does it risk health practitioners being targeted…
Nurse union tells AHPRA to ditch contested anti-Semitism definition
Australia’s biggest nursing union has demanded that AHPRA immediately suspend its use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s anti-Semitism definition, warning it could expose nurses…
AHPRA’s anti-Semitism definition: ‘Doctors must not be punished for condemning the atrocities in Gaza’
Last week, we published a piece by Dr Billie Whiteson on AHPRA’s decision to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism to guide its regulatory…
Dr Craig Lilienthal: Marriage, loss and my right to fart in bed
The late Professor Terry Bolin, a gastroenterologist and former president of the GUT Foundation, once revealed that people — men and women equally — pass…
