AusDoc’s 40th birthday competition: Tell us about your most memorable day as a doctor
Later this year, AusDoc marks its 40th birthday. It is a little unreal to us — when our first issue ran, it was the days of…
Tag: Doctor stories
Meet the GP who engineered his own AI assistant: ‘My clinical work still pays better’
Dr Horst Herb is a rural GP by day. His evenings, however, are dedicated to coding an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to assess studies before…
‘I was ashamed and thought people would think less of me’: GP on his ADHD diagnosis
GP Dr Chris Soo was first diagnosed with ADHD at 17, yet spent years making his peace with it. “I was diagnosed on the same…
My patient blamed the wind for her cardiac symptoms: the GP dilemma when patients choose denial
I love how children reason, trying to make sense of this complicated world based on their limited experience. A little girl was noted by her parents…
‘My patients like my dog more than me!’: Doctors and their dogs
AusDoc prides itself on sniffing out a story, so we’re feeling a little hangdog that we didn’t spot this earlier — a Facebook group with…
I needed a break from my paediatric training, but why was hitting the pause button so tough?
Medicine is a marathon, not a sprint — this is a mantra we hear repeatedly from the beginning of medical school. It’s embedded in our…
‘Doctors are at breaking point’: A day in Gaza’s last hospital
Relentless bombings and airstrikes by Israeli forces continue to kill hundreds of people across Gaza, while medical staff in hospitals are stretched to their limits…
Young GP siblings buck the practice closure trend by launching a clinic together
With abundant news stories about long-running practices closing, a young sibling GP duo in Tasmania are determined to fight back. Dr Emma Shoemaker and her…
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.…
Do you have a screw loose if you date another doctor?
It is not a secret that dating (or being married to) a doctor is difficult. Whether you’re non-medical, in allied health, or a doctor yourself,…
