Australian Doctor News

How an IT malfunction helped give the RACGP its GP of the Year

24th November 2020
Sometimes a computer malfunction helps, rather than hinders, a medical career. You can ask Dr Duncan MacKinnon, who on…
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Dr Duncan MacKinnon
Medical Observer Opinion

DIY medical care: I once performed a Pap smear on myself

24th November 2020
Recently, while I was performing a breast exam on a patient who is a healthcare professional, she admitted that she had a…
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Medical Observer Opinion

How I survived childhood diphtheria, but many others didn't

19th November 2020
It was July 1955. I was 10-years old and had just returned from a fantastic beach holiday with my grandparents in the north…
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Medical Observer Opinion

6 times being a GP made me laugh

12th November 2020
In my pre-computer youth, I used to love reading the ‘Laughter is the best medicine’ section in the old Readers’ Digest. As…
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Dr Craig Lilienthal.
Medical Observer Opinion

It's been a tumultuous week for an American-Australian like me

11th November 2020
This last week has been quite a week for me … a double whammy of anxiety. There were the US elections that seemed to be a…
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Donald Trump
Medical Observer Opinion

How Tina Turner saved more lives than me in the town of Tara

4th November 2020
It was 3am on a Sunday morning in the operating theatre of Tara District Hospital sometime in the spring of 1978.  As I…
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Medical Observer Opinion

Burly soldiers watched as we were sprayed with sanitiser

2nd November 2020
After returning from my busy GP locum in Tasmania — where I was received with open arms and much appreciation as an…
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