Urgent care clinics accused of failing to provide proper clinical handover to GPs
GPs have accused urgent care clinics of providing inconsistent or non-existent clinical handover to patients’ usual doctors. The allegation is spelt out in a new…
Tag: Emergency Departments
Dr Nick Coatsworth: Senior doctors should resist the ‘back in my day’ narrative
Dr Nick Coatsworth says intergenerational comparisons — the ‘back in my day’-isms — can make it harder to address young doctors’ mental health and burnout. The former…
My most memorable day as a doctor? George Clooney, roadside trauma and saving my own mum
As part of our 40th anniversary, we asked readers to describe their most memorable day in medicine over the past 40 years. Here, you can…
Spitting on doctors to trigger three-month prison sentence under new laws
Spitting on doctors, nurses, paramedics, police or other frontline workers will result in a minimum three-month prison term under harsher penalties being introduced in the…
‘Being an aged care doctor is not about being a saint — the rewards are there in front of you’
GP Dr Fiona Wallace, who trained in the Hebridean islands of Scotland, became disillusioned with her work at an Australian rural ED after seeing so…
My most memorable day as a doctor? Ellen and Bill and the ‘Big Sick’ home visit
As part of AusDoc’s 40th anniversary, we asked readers to describe their most memorable day in medicine. Here, you can read about the wonders of…
‘Losing my balance, I rolled into the bed to join the new baby between the mother’s legs’
As part of AusDoc’s 40th anniversary, we have been asking readers to describe their most memorable day as a doctor. Here, you can read about…
‘Mental health emergency work is not pretty — it’s a hybrid of Dante’s Inferno, Narcos and The Golden Girls’
Psychiatrist and TV presenter Dr Mark Cross knows the mental health system from both sides, as a clinician and a patient. In his book Mental…
ED chaos, men in suits and car washes: Longstanding emergency doctor on where it’s all gone wrong
Dr Phillip Kay has spent decades trying to resolve the ever-growing “chaos and blockages” that have beset EDs and hospitals across Australia. He is now…
Dumped in the deep end: Locum doctor ‘too junior’ to manage toddler who later died of meningitis
Just minutes into his first shift, following a hasty introduction to a rural hospital’s ED, a locum doctor diagnosed Noah Souvatzis with gastroenteritis. Two days…
