The news today? Doctors as adult males, CT scans to cause 5% of future cancers and RFK Jr’s autism pledge

Staff writers

Welcome to your bite-sized wrap-up. Below we provide news summaries of what is going on in medicine with links to the articles, opinions, studies and posts.

Female doctor wants Jetstar to change ‘default male’ policy 

When is a doctor always an ‘adult male’? On Jetstar flights apparently, as trauma specialist Dr Amanda McConnell discovered when she was flying from Cairns to Brisbane last month. 

She was stopped at the baggage check-in as a queue built up behind her.