Medical Observer Opinion

'Everyone in town had heard I'd been assaulted - except me, the local GP'

10th September 2019
Following my hospital training, I spent a most enjoyable 10 years as a procedural GP in a small town in central NSW. My…
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Australian Doctor News

Being sectioned was the best thing to happen to me: GP

5th September 2019
When the police unlocked my ­cellar door and found me hiding there, it was my son who quickly took the pen knife from my…
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Dr Chris Cotton
Medical Observer Opinion

Why dropping disastrous delivery stories can be good medicine

30th August 2019
I have been collecting stories of disastrous deliveries for first-time mothers. Prima-gravidas are often lulled into images…
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Medical Observer Opinion

GP admits: 'I felt the weight of what I had done and went home very anxious'

27th August 2019
The following is an extract from Dr Heather McNamee’s submission to the Queensland Parliament’s inquiry into palliative care…
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Investigation of common thyroid problems

27th September 2019
This publication is supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Health. Common Sense Pathology is…
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Australian Doctor News

GP receives posthumous bravery award after execution in WWII

19th August 2019
The first news of Dr Ben Quin’s death came after the war was over. His wife Mary was on a train travelling home, sitting…
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Dr Ben Quin.
Australian Doctor News

Making the transition: Life as a transgender GP

18th July 2019
Dr Tuck Meng Soo has a life story like few other GPs. Arriving in Canberra as a gay Chinese man in 1989, Dr Soo spent…
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Dr Tuck Meng Soo
Medical Observer Opinion

Did this GP's decision cost her patient his life?

15th July 2019
Sometimes doing the right thing is the wrong thing. But one learns that only in retrospect. And one must live with one’s…
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