Tassie unveils GP ADHD training but AMA says it ‘won’t be enough’ without extra funding
The Tasmanian Government has unveiled its training for GPs to diagnose and treat ADHD, with about 50 GPs completing a six-hour in-person training session last…
Rachel Carter
Rachel is a reporter with Australian Doctor Group.
‘We know our limits’: Dr Vikas Jasoria is one of the GPs now trained to treat ADHD
For a long time, Dr Vikas Jasoria witnessed how many patients seeking help for ADHD struggled to access specialist input. “It is very difficult for…
Patients with intellectual disability at risk of entrenched polypharmacy, doctors warn
Sometimes Dr Adrian Keller inherits a patient with an intellectual disability who has been on risperidone for longer than a decade. “When a patient is…
Govt spending $25 million to set up new GP practices in region with ‘cultural’ resistance to bulk-billing
A “cultural issue” at GP practices has held back bulk-billing in the region where the government will fund six new clinics, Minister for Health and…
Why the British Medical Association has retracted its opposition to the Cass Review findings on gender care
The UK doctors’ union has retracted its opposition to a high-profile review on gender care services conducted by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass, following its own…
Lost to follow-up: Do GPs and psychs need new clinical handover guidelines?
At the heart of the clinical failing around the treatment of Joel Cauchi — the man who stabbed to death six people at a Sydney shopping…
‘I thought it was me as a doctor’: Psychiatrists say Donald Trump is mentally unstable
Should psychiatrists ever attempt to diagnose the psychological state of an individual with whom they have no therapeutic relationship, say, a political leader whose conduct…
Rising from its knees: The story of an O&G unit’s remarkable revival
Dr Steven Adair would lie awake some nights wondering what he had taken on by returning to the director role at Canberra Hospital’s O&G unit.…
Psychiatrists launch new youth subspecialty requiring two years of advanced training
Psychiatrists can now formally specialise in youth psychiatry, a subspecialty focused on 12-25-year-olds, after their college launched a new two-year training pathway last week. Until…
Postpartum psychosis: Easy to miss, potentially devastating and not in the DSM — yet
The consequences of missing a postpartum psychosis diagnosis can be devastating. A mother’s life can be lost to suicide, or a child’s to infanticide. “In…
