The ‘greedy doctor’ debate is obscuring a bigger specialist access crisis
Maybe it is because a genuine fix demands so much that the political focus on access to specialist care has been vacuum-packed into one issue:…
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Voice cloning and deepfakes: Concerns grow over AI impersonation of Aussie doctors
Fraudsters are continuing to exploit AI to impersonate doctors, with cloning the voices of doctors emerging as the latest tactic used to trick patients out…
A night in hospital or a luxury hotel? The $1245 cost of older patients stranded in public hospitals
At $1245 a day, the cost of caring for an older patient stranded in hospital while awaiting an aged care bed is comparable to a…
A single ‘midlife’ health assessment could soon replace four MBS items, including the Heart Health Check
Four existing MBS health assessment items should be replaced with a single midlife assessment to reduce duplication and confusion, according to a review by the…
‘I make spare parts for people — a nose, ear or eye’: The face makers moulding new lives for cancer patients
Sophie Fleming is a clinical anaplastologist. She is sitting with a collection of her “spare parts” laid out on a desk. An orbital prosthesis complete…
RACGP calls for national urgent care standards to address substandard clinical handover
New national standards are needed for urgent care clinics, the RACGP has warned, amid concerns that around a third of presentations do not result in…
Death row inmate survives lethal injection in second botched Tennessee execution
A US death row inmate has been hospitalised in a critical condition after surviving execution by lethal injection — Tennessee’s second botched execution this year.…
Public hospital doctors in Victoria strike for the first time in 20 years
Thousands of doctors will briefly hang up their scrubs today in a bid to win momentum for stalled government negotiations over pay and conditions. For…
Hospital IT system that booked dead patients for operations declared a failure
A multi-million dollar IT upgrade that locked doctors out of essential clinical information for patients with serious injuries and booked dead patients in for operations…
Australia’s health policy Dark Age? The 1260 years patients are stuck in hospital waiting for an aged care bed
The public debate is obsessed about crippling health budgets, egregious specialist fees and mass Medicare rorts. So you would think that there would be more…
