Should regularly using illicit drugs away from work automatically disqualify you from practising medicine? Some argue that doctors using recreational drugs hurts the medical profession’s…
“It’s like being an actor. “The best time to leave is when you’re on centrestage, the crowd is roaring for more and bouquets are being…
I am a one legged, pacemaker-driven, 80-year-old GP, and I am still working three days a week in a busy, CBD practice. I also do…
The Medical Board of Australia’s consultation paper on its plan for mandatory health checks for older doctors runs to 92 pages. It is heavy with…
When a GP took their own life earlier this year, Dr Sarah Kleinman experienced unwanted but tragically familiar feelings of guilt and shock. In the…
Dr Michael Clements tries to avoid watching the bloody images coming out of Gaza. It is not because he does not care but because of…
There is a paragraph in what follows where Professor Steve Robson, the AMA president, writes: “As someone who has experienced the most profound feelings of…
At the lowest depths of burnout, I was a “disruptive physician”. I got away with a lot. I frequently lashed out in anger with inappropriate…
Once through the shock of his multiple myeloma diagnosis, GP Dr Peter Goldsworthy had a thought: ‘What great material.’ The award-winning writer was now in…
On my early morning walk, I found myself mulling over an incident that occurred many years ago and that obviously still disturbs me. A patient…
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