Are physicians about to remove their college president using their surgical implement of choice — the Extraordinary General Meeting? This week, AusDoc was sent copies of…
It was core to the Breaking Bad plot, the TV series about chemistry teacher Walter White. This is the idea that his terminal lung cancer diagnosis propelled…
Bad things happen in prisons, but sometimes the reasons bad things happen are not the fault of the inmates themselves. Take drug use. Australian prisons, specifically…
The heated debate over whether specialists are gouging patients continues. The Federal Government is now looking at ways of dictating the gap fees that specialists…
Opportunistic bilateral salpingectomy reduces the risk of serous ovarian cancer by more than 75% compared with hysterectomy or tubal ligation, research suggests. Researchers have compared…
The unprecedented public discussion around GLP-1 receptor agonists is raising the risk of patients with eating disorders escalating harmful behaviours, the director of a specialist…
Doctors want a formalised process for transferring patients into corridors, lounges or other “unconventional” spaces on wards when faced with critical ED overcrowding. Emergency physician…
Infants raised in vegan households are more likely to be underweight in their first 60 days, but the difference mostly disappears by age two, research…
Patients whose medical records are accidentally duplicated have a 400% higher risk of in-hospital death and a 200% higher risk of ICU admission, suggests a…
An apparently standard investigation into a 63-year-old’s persistent left-sided lumbar pain has made radiologists think thrice. The Moroccan patient had unremarkable results on physical examination,…
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