The Erin Patterson mushroom poisoning case has fascinated and horrified Australians, along with many others around the world who followed the trial as it played…
New AHPRA guidance warns that prescribers are issuing multiple medicinal cannabis scripts to individual patients so they can try the different types and decide “which…
AHPRA and the ATO are working together to identify doctors and dentists routinely helping patients access super funds to pay for medical treatment. Early access to…
New AHPRA guidelines warn cosmetic doctors to stop advertising with terms such as “doll-maker”, “sculptor”, “artist” or “magic hands”. Two new guidelines on non-surgical cosmetic…
Medicinal cannabis prescribers are failing to acknowledge concerned correspondence from patients’ regular doctors, a leading psychiatrist says. Professor Richard Harvey has routinely written to the doctors prescribing…
Revelations that AHPRA knows of eight doctors who have collectively written 80,000 scripts for category 5 THC medicinal cannabis once again raise the obvious question.…
Growing up in the far outback on a cattle station was different. I had eight years of Mum’s home schooling, supplemented with School of the…
A solo GP has been suspended for three months after a patient’s family reported him to AHPRA for refusing to prescribe her regular medications and…
Pharmacists got the news last year that they would be able to call themselves ‘doctors’ after completing a new extended master’s degree. They are not…
Doctors prescribing medicinal cannabis are being urged to think about differential diagnoses, monitoring and exit plans after revelations that 441,000 patients started high-THC cannabis over…
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