Judging by the plethora of articles appearing in the medical media of late, including AusDoc, our colleagues are starting to accept that general practice is far down s*** street and that Medicare is not going to fix our funding woes.

Old doctors are burnt out, young doctors have fled to other specialties and there is a large and jaundiced lump in the middle.

What more and more GPs — and even our learned colleges and associations — are realising, and stating publicly, is that bulk-billing practices are economically unviable and have been for years.

We all know practising six-minute medicine is soul destroying, not conducive to good medicine and incompatible with quality healthcare.