GP facing $600k defamation suit after Facebook stoush
She publicly accused a rival doctor of stealing her ideas on Medicare billing
A high-profile GP is facing a $600,000 defamation lawsuit after she went on Facebook to accuse a rival of stealing her ideas on effective ways to bill Medicare.
Dr April Armstrong is the founder of Business for Doctors, which provides advice on issues such as tax, superannuation and investment.
But in September 2017 she claimed Dr Rajan Anand, a GP from Adelaide, had copied her educational material and case studies after attending her workshops on Medicare billing to set up his own training enterprise.
In a series of Facebook posts to her group, which has 20,000 followers, she declared he had “stolen” her intellectual property and was passing it off as his own work.
