Dr Tasha Port was preparing to submit her application for the paediatrician training program when she took her own life in June 2020. Medicine had…
“It dragged on over years, so you’d literally be sitting in a cold sweat every day just looking through emails waiting for the next message…
I am a doctor, a urologist, and a survivor of multiple suicide attempts. This is my personal story — a story of burnout, mental illness…
The suicide of a UK cardiologist shortly after he was prescribed ciprofloxacin highlights that many doctors remain unaware of the link between the antibiotic and…
GP and writer Dr Sonia Henry put jolts through the medical profession when she published an anonymous opinion piece in 2017 about medicine’s “shameful and…
An AHPRA review that identified 16 suicides of health practitioners under investigation found there was no clear process for investigators to escalate concerns about a…
Doctors are not good with boundaries. Let me be clearer about this: I’m not talking about professional or ethical boundaries. All health professionals are required…
Doctors have described the trauma, stigma and fear that comes with a health impairment notification, as the RACGP steps up its push to have mandatory…
About five years ago, I did the first public reading of my non-academic writing. I was a 40-something-year-old doctor, and I was terrified. It was…
Often what ails us is not the illness or injury, but its indirect impact — on our lives, our relationships, our sense of ourselves and…
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