‘Discontinue the MBS’: What does Margaret Faux’s PhD thesis actually say?
Spoiler alert: It does not at any point say the number $8 billion
If there’s another example of the medical profession spending more than a week discussing an obscure PhD thesis on the inner workings of the Medicare system, nobody at Australian Doctor remembers it.
But last week it happened, as the ABC and Nine Newspapers repeatedly cited Margaret Faux’s 443-page thesis in their attempts to justify allegations that doctors were rorting billions from Medicare each year.
