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She returned home to sleep a few floors above her abuser — I hoped she wouldn’t become a dreaded statistic
Thinking back to my time as a final-year medical student in the emergency department, there was always a nagging sense of being in the way…
95-year-old GP keeps his home after company’s illegal eviction attempt: Supreme Court
A 95-year-old GP has prevailed after an investment company tried to evict him from his home, spied on him and cut off his electricity. In…
‘We thought it was a stick’: Doctor’s miracle rescue of man floating 5km out at sea
Dr Glen Valaire was returning from an open-water fishing trip with a close friend when five kilometres from shore, in a vast expanse of nothingness,…
GP couple who moved to Australia in 1973 retire after a combined century in general practice
After treating an estimated 60,000 patients between them, GP couple Dr Promila Singh-Panwar and Dr Thakur Singh-Panwar are retiring while they remain “rational and logical”.…
Help! How do I repair my scorched relationship with my son-in-law and remedy his PTSD?
I need my readers to help me with some advice about how to make amends for an incident that occurred in 2007. It happened on the…
‘My double life as a puzzler’: GP among world’s fastest jigsaw solvers
Unlike most pandemic hobbies, Dr Hannah Farthing’s obsession with jigsaw puzzles did not end with the COVID-19 lockdowns. Instead the pastime has taken her into…
From foster care and med school rejection to intern: Dr Taylor Glover’s story
Dr Taylor Glover was 11 when her home life fell apart. “Growing up, there was drug abuse, alcohol abuse and violence,” she says. × Welcome…
Dr Marian Dover: A rural generalist’s 4000km journey to escape the ‘path to nowhere’
When GP Dr Marian Dover saw the job of her dreams, with the thrill, she also experienced a little trepidation at what would come with…
‘I was a professor when I sat my GP exams’: Evidence-based medicine star Professor Paul Glasziou retires
When Professor Paul Glasziou first went through medical training in the late ’70s, doctors were taught based on understanding the disease process and what seemed…
