Generations of doctors have been robbed of their rightful wages: This is my story
It’s wonderful to see the junior doctors of Victoria and NSW finally winning their class actions for longstanding wage theft by their health department employers.…
Tag: Hospitals
Nurse-led clinics costing taxpayers $195 per consult: official figures
Health officials misled the public about the cost per service at ACT’s nurse-led walk-in clinics by burying roughly $10 million in expenses, reveal documents obtained…
‘Foul-tasting’ almond milk behind rare Aussie botulism case
The taste of almond milk can be divisive, but a particularly ‘foul-tasting’ batch led Sydney doctors to diagnose the first local case of botulism from…
Pompous colleges, bow ties and pointless PhDs: Dr Colin McClintock on specialist training
Renal specialist Dr Colin McClintock recently took a swipe at ‘pompous, bow tie-wearing’, city-centric specialists when he appeared at a NSW Government inquiry. His lashing…
Unaccredited registrars keep our public hospitals functioning — so why are they treated so badly?
The last time you went to a public hospital, whether to a fracture clinic, the emergency department or to have your baby delivered, you were…
Hospital malfunction: Orthopaedic patients given service call bells to alert nurses
Modern healthcare — high tech, high cost with complex life-saving computer-guided machinery that, in the 21st century at least, does far more than go ping.…
Junior doctors’ victory after being paid just $17.70 a day for on-call clinical duties
Junior doctors in NSW will be thousands of dollars better off after winning a three-year legal fight against exploitation by the public hospital system. This…
‘Why would a doctor go to the bush where you’re a lone wolf making life-threatening decisions?’
This question was posed to politicians on Monday as part of a parliamentary investigation into the deepening crisis affecting rural NSW was blunt and a…
Court rejects second negligence claim against radiologist over a myelogram he performed 47 years ago
Two decades after winning a negligence claim over a myelogram he performed way back in 1977, a Sydney radiologist could be forgiven for thinking the…
Professor Steve Robson: The story of my own near-suicide and how I came through
There is a paragraph in what follows where Professor Steve Robson, the AMA president, writes: “As someone who has experienced the most profound feelings of…
