App Review: A little care for the carers
Carers Couch is an app developed to support family and friends of patients with cancer who find themselves thrown in the deep end of looking…
Sophie Attwood
Sophie is a journalist at Australian Doctor.
App Review: This fun game tests for three hearing issues
Sound Scouts is an app that checks for three hearing issues: conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss and difficulties listening to noise. It is aimed…
I designed a simulation to prepare for pandemics pre-COVID-19, but our govt wasn’t interested
Smallpox was high on my radar again after the 2017 Evans horsepox experiment, which proved that smallpox could be synthesised in a lab. It was…
The times when I feel like doing a Dr House
It appears that doctors are now the government’s scapegoats. With the Commonwealth budget in trillions of dollars of debt, it is reasonable that the government…
Why patients with dementia are more likely to survive getting lost
Being lost in an unfamiliar place is an unsettling feeling most of us have experienced. It requires cognitive and physical skills, and potentially other resources,…
Australia’s COVID-19 response ‘overreached’ and worsened social inequalities
Australia’s response to COVID-19 exacerbated existing inequalities within the society, according to an independent review, which urges that “overreach” be avoided in dealing with future…
The disease guidelines industry: How independent is it, really?
Australian Doctor recently reported on an expert-written guideline urging Australian GPs to inform patients with mild dementia that a multivitamin supplement had been shown to…
Medical Must-See: Doctor’s surgery slip-up ends in own amputation
In an unfortunate case of iatrogenesis, a suturing slip-up resulted in a rare infection and amputation — for the doctor. The 35-year-old presented to ED…
Former PSR director says $8 billion Medicare rort claims are fake news
The headlines that $8 billion in Medicare claims are fraudulent are classic cases of fake news. The evidence for this dramatic accusation was from a…
Dear surgeon, postop care is not the GP’s problem – it’s yours
An article by an anonymous GP in Medical Observer last month (‘Dear specialist, I am a GP, not your community intern‘) seems to have triggered…
