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    Tag: Emergency medicine

    Dr Nick Coatsworth: Senior doctors should resist the ‘back in my day’ narrative

    November 15, 2024

    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…

    Dr Marian Dover: A rural generalist’s 4000km journey to escape the ‘path to nowhere’

    November 8, 2024

    When GP Dr Marian Dover saw the job of her dreams, with the thrill, she also experienced a little trepidation at what would come with…

    My most memorable day as a doctor? George Clooney, roadside trauma and saving my own mum

    November 6, 2024

    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…

    Why doctors are from Mars and patients are from Venus

    October 30, 2024

    Doctors are from Mars, patients are from Venus. It sounds like a play on Dr John Gray’s brilliant book from 1992, but from our medical…

    ‘Being an aged care doctor is not about being a saint — the rewards are there in front of you’

    October 28, 2024

    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…

    Dog food, valium and a V8: My night shift in the ‘badlands’ of Adelaide

    October 21, 2024

    As part of AusDoc’s 40th anniversary, we have been publishing stories by readers about their most memorable day as a doctor. This account, by Dr Ralph…

    ‘Losing my balance, I rolled into the bed to join the new baby between the mother’s legs’

    October 14, 2024

    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…

    Scoping out an unsettled child

    October 12, 2024

    Caleb, a three-year-old boy, is brought in by his parents with a four-day history of intermittent fever and soft stool. He has vomited twice over…

    ‘Mental health emergency work is not pretty — it’s a hybrid of Dante’s Inferno, Narcos and The Golden Girls’

    September 20, 2024

    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…

    Surgery on wrong site and retained dressings among ‘record’ number of medical errors

    September 9, 2024

    Lack of recognition of clinical deterioration made up one third of all sentinel events and half of paediatric events over 12 months, a Victorian report…

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