Call for AHPRA’s emergency suspensions to be lifted after 12 months
Medical defence organisation Avant is calling for doctors’ emergency suspensions to be lifted after 12 months if AHPRA has not finalised its investigation into their…
Tag: Doctors’ health
As a doctor, how would you feel going to ED, telling other doctors you planned to kill yourself and being sent away? Let me tell you
When we have an MI come through ED, they are given the gold-star treatment — because MIs will kill you. Never are you told, “Sorry,…
‘It looks like I will be passing away,’ says Professor Richard Scolyer after glioblastoma returns
Professor Richard Scolyer says he only has months to live after surgery confirmed the return of his glioblastoma but he remains grateful to have outlived…
From psych inpatient to ECT and now medical school: Sam Diprose’s story
At 4am on a psych ward, inpatient Sam Diprose met the doctor who changed his life. “He shared with me that he had a friend…
‘It was emotionally difficult for them’: Emergency doctor treated by friends and colleagues after 10 metre fall
Dr Fraser Bliesner has experienced first hand the miraculous impact of a pain team after a shocking 10m fall onto concrete just weeks before he…
There was a medical emergency on my flight – I sat in my seat resisting the urge to play hero
It’s crack-of-dawn early, and I’m on a flight. Working swing ER shifts has left me exhausted, barely packed, and running on fumes. But hey, as…
‘I was in tears when my colleague walked in and gave me a hug’: The psychiatrist who desperately needed therapy
Who do psychiatrists turn to when they need therapy? In Professor Brett McDermott’s case, a fellow psychiatrist eventually came to his aid, but not before…
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…
Vexatious complaints against doctors linked to domestic violence and marriage breakdown, review finds
AHPRA has been urged to pay greater attention to whether complaints are being lodged against doctors subject to domestic and family violence. This week, the…
Up to 90% of doctors are humiliated during their training: Here’s how it impacts patient care
Imagine being questioned about complex technical knowledge in front of your peers, supervisors and members of the public – knowing that a wrong answer could…
