Tag: Coronavirus
Your Quick Guide to telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items in October
Get the most important MBS items for GPs at a glance, with AusDoc’s October telehealth and COVID-19 Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to attendance items, is…
A GP guide to long COVID ‘brain fog’
This article focuses of the cognitive components of long COVID, also known as ‘brain fog’. It complements a previous How to Treat on post-infective fatigue…
Caring for your dying patients through a computer screen: ‘I wanted to give them a big hug’
“People were almost grieving for their lost ability to see patients and families in person.” Throughout 2019, Victorian medical oncologist and palliative care physician Dr…
September guide to Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items
Get the most important MBS items for GPs at a glance, with AusDoc’s September telehealth and COVID-19 Quick Guide. The MBS Quick Guide to attendance items, is…
Call for more Paxlovid prescribing to prevent COVID-19 deaths in aged care
A leading infectious diseases specialist has urged GPs to prescribe nirmatrelvir–ritonavir more readily for patients in aged care facilities, who are still dying of COVID-19…
We are not being gagged: Doctors, free speech and the tribulations of Dr Jereth Kok
A great divide between doctors resurfaced last month, when GP Dr Jereth Kok faced a tribunal over 85 of his social media posts, including one…
GP denies allegations he endorsed genocide and compared pandemic orders to Nazism
GP Dr Jereth Kok has admitted writing “inappropriate” social media posts that demeaned abortion doctors, during a five-hour examination before the Victorian Civil and Administrative…
Why this registrar plays chess with a retired doctor living in aged care
ICU registrar Dr Aquib Chowdhury, 31, volunteers to regularly visit a doctor living in aged care as a way of giving back to the profession.…
Quick Guide for Telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items — the August issue
AusDoc’s August telehealth and COVID-19 MBS items Quick Guide is now available. Included are the changes that came into play with the new financial year.…