‘A teacher said I’d be a streetsweeper if I was lucky — now I’m an RACGP fellow’
Everybody wants a piece of Dr Justin Hunter. One of the first Indigenous doctors in the Royal Australian Navy, he is now a fully fledged…
Tag: GP stories
‘My friends went to the front line dressed in sneakers and jeans’: A GP’s story of two wars
When Dr Jasmina Dedic-Hagan flew to Ukraine in March, it was not her first time in a war zone. Teaching combat first-aid was her way…
‘I was armed with an F88 rifle and 9mm pistol’: A GP’s story
How Dr Justin Hunter's confronting experiences in Iraq led him into GP training.
Underground medicine: Aussie GP tells of her new life under fire amid the war in Ukraine
'Once we start talking to them, they often break down, words spilling out of them of the horrors they have endured,' says Dr Lisa Searle.
‘I’m treading water’: GP to close well-known clinic to avoid financial loss
The founder of a well-known Canberra general practice originally set up to treat HIV patients says she has tried everything to remain open, but the…
Life after death: A GP’s cancer diagnosis and the haunting novel she wrote before she died
Last month a novel about the lives of two women haunted by the BRCA1 gene mutation was published. Called Inheritance it has already received rave…
The year that was: ‘I couldn’t leave my mother to die’
Dr Natalia Peker used a phone and family contacts to get her mother to safety.
Rapunzel president and bad hair days: Dr Karen Price reflects on leading GPs through pandemic
It is fair to say Adjunct Clinical Professor Karen Price’s term as RACGP president has been like no other — both on a professional and…
GP pulls award out of hat at magic festival
Dr Vyom Sharma's skills baffled audiences during his award-winning performances at this year's Melbourne event.
GPs using interpreters given Medicare green light to claim longer consults
The government’s allowance to level up MBS items to account for interpreters will not cover the majority of this GP’s work.
