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    Tag: Doctors’ health

    The King’s Birthday honours: The amazing career of medicine’s Guardian of the Dead

    June 9, 2025

    Forty years ago, Emeritus Professor Roger Byard was working as a hospital pathology registrar with an interest in forensics when he was tasked with performing…

    DVA’s first chief psychiatrist on Afghanistan, PTSD and the struggle of doctors to manage their own trauma

    May 12, 2025

    “Every doctor reading this will have experienced traumas in their working life. “As a profession, we do not deal with that well. × Welcome to…

    Call for AHPRA’s emergency suspensions to be lifted after 12 months

    April 7, 2025

    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…

    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

    March 19, 2025

    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

    March 11, 2025

    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

    February 19, 2025

    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

    January 31, 2025

    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

    January 15, 2025

    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

    December 12, 2024

    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?

    December 11, 2024

    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…

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