Best of AusDoc 2024: Finding distant love, Dr Goldsworthy’s karma, and a GP’s quest for redemption
The AusDoc team has selected some of their favourite stories from over the last year. They range from Dr Lei Min Chen’s fight to practise…
Tag: Doctor stories
Trampoline torture, a vodka-toting Russian and drunk elves: Revisiting my Christmas past
“And a Merry Christmas to you Guv.” The words sounded familiar but were out of context and dripping with sarcasm. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling…
My long-time GP is retiring. It’s tough to lose my ally in life
My GP is retiring. I found this news incredibly distressing. × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering the medical community to come together. Sign in…
From hospital groundskeeper to doctor: ‘Some days I miss only having to worry about the lawns’
When Dr Marcin Skladaniec began with Queensland Health, his greatest responsibility was to keep his local hospital’s lawns flourishing and mowed. Ten years later the…
Pain as a rite of passage: Why does the sadomasochism of medicine continue?
My grandfather was a GP in country NSW in the 1930s and ’40s, back when a GP was the Swiss Army knife of doctors: the…
Her son gave his Mother’s Day card to the nanny: When work pressures lead doctors to lose touch with family life
Bring me flowers now while I’m living.I don’t need your love when I’m gone.Don’t spend time, tears and money on my old breathless body.If your…
My most memorable day? The sudden thud, the loud cry and looking down to see the baby lying at my feet
As part of AusDoc’s 40th anniversary celebrations, we asked readers to describe their most memorable day in medicine. Here, you can read about Dr Geoffrey…
‘Young GPs are amazingly smart’: Dr Bruce Willett on mentoring the next generation, dealing with pollies and his sharp shoes
Many GPs will know Dr Bruce Willett for his sartorial style, particularly the shoes. The RACGP’s former vice-president suggests the shoes are the only interesting thing…
Better than the textbooks: What I learnt from Eric, my patient with schizophrenia
All my life I have been puzzled by schizophrenia. My first patient with the condition was Eric. I was a medical student and he was…
I had to beg my father to take me to hospital: The curse of growing up with medical parents
It seems that the unfortunate fate of those born to parents with a wealth of medical knowledge is that their parents never believe they are…
