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    Tag: Domestic and family violence

    Another emergency suspension overturned at tribunal — ‘not in the public interest’

    September 3, 2024

    A tribunal has overturned another doctor’s emergency suspension, saying it is in the public interest for competent doctors to keep practising if appropriate. The doctor,…

    Doctor says the trauma of dealing with domestic violence cases is driving his ED staff away

    July 22, 2024

    The emotional toll of dealing with domestic violence presentations in the NT is driving healthcare staff away from their jobs, the director of Alice Springs…

    Domestic violence: Resources for doctors faced with one of the most confronting issues in medicine

    July 16, 2024

    In the past few weeks, we have covered a series of domestic violence cases. The fact that they have involved doctors as victims and, in…

    CTE found in two women who endured decades of violence in first Australian case report

    July 9, 2024

    Two women who endured decades of intimate partner abuse have become the first in Australia to be diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the context…

    ‘My husband said it was not violence, it was domestic correction’: A GP tells her shocking story

    June 25, 2024

    At the time of this article, 40 Australian women have been killed by a partner or ex-partner so far this year. Nobody is immune to…

    ‘They have faced terrifying abuse. They don’t sleep’: General practice in a women’s refuge

    June 12, 2024

    “Her haemoglobin was 47, the lowest I have ever seen, and she was experiencing chest pains, palpitations, lightheadedness,” Dr Colette Hourigan says. “She was so close to death, but…

    Former RACGP presidential candidate slammed for tweet about killing of doctor’s son

    May 27, 2024

    Doctors have slammed a former RACGP presidential candidate for suggesting a suspected murderer may have been ‘goaded’ before killing his two-year-old son and himself.  Dr…

    Coroner says all GPs should be subject to compulsory family violence training

    May 10, 2024

    A coroner has criticised the RACGP for failing to mandate its six-hour family violence CPD program after a patient who had told her GP that…

    ‘A story worth telling’: The unexpected concussion diagnosis that inspired Dr Mukesh Haikerwal

    March 21, 2024

    An unexpected concussion diagnosis followed by a ”profoundly different” rehabilitation plan has inspired a leading GP to hold a seminar on updates in managing brain…

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    Climate change is a ‘threat amplifier’ wreaking havoc on women’s health

    March 6, 2024

    Gender, inequality and climate change are inextricably connected. We see this play out with women being more vulnerable to climate health impacts such as displacement…

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