Doctor rejects being a hospital specialist to be a GP for homeless patients
As a youngster in Perth’s middle-class western suburbs, Dr Andrew Davies wanted to be “some kind of professor of medicine”. “My mother was an obstetrician…
Tag: Care in the Community
Domestic violence: Resources for doctors faced with one of the most confronting issues in medicine
In the past few weeks, we have covered a series of domestic violence cases. The fact that they have involved doctors as victims and, in…
App Review: Ask Annie how to improve dementia care
It aims to help home and community support workers better understand people living with dementia.
Struggle to attract GPs to community care sparks funding plea
NGO whose mobile doctor service has been forced to close wants the new government to revamp Medicare for community health primary care.
The mysterious GP and her multimillion-dollar bequest for the homeless
Not much is known about Dr Dianne Houghton, but she wanted to do something on a grand scale after her death.
‘Men kill their wives and some have no idea what happened’
Dr Sophie Ping reflects on memorable moments as a forensic doctor helping survivors of crime.
Homelessness is not just a COVID-19 health issue
A few weeks ago, my kids participated in the nostalgic (for me) experience of calling grandparents and close family friends to ask for charity sponsorship.…
How a successful Aussie doctor ended up on the streets
Dr Andrew Rochford, emergency doctor and media personality, is one of five participants in SBS's latest season of Filthy Rich & Homeless.
We can’t wait for bush firefighters to ‘reach out’ for mental health care, we need to ‘reach in’
Many firefighters will by now be exhausted, having been on the front line of Australia’s bushfire crisis for weeks or months. This bushfire season has…
The medical community is ill-prepared for the rise of e-sports: doctors
Doctors claim that the sports medicine field is 'ill-prepared' to deal with the emergence of the technological phenomena, writes Antony Scholefield…
