Bob Marley, syphilis and the power of letters: Professor Robert Parker on a decade leading doctors in the NT
The story that has stuck with Associate Professor Robert Parker was told by his former boss Dr Alan Walker in 1989. Dr Walker said that…
Tag: Indigenous health
New guidance supports antibiotics for unconfirmed strep A in patients at high risk of acute rheumatic fever
New guidelines recommend antibiotic treatment for sore throats in high-risk children and adolescents without diagnostic confirmation of strep A to prevent acute rheumatic fever. Released…
‘For a non-stick frying pan, it’s not worth it’: GP on the lives being lost in Wreck Bay Village
Wreck Bay Village is home to a small community. The population is around 300 but according to its one-time GP, lives are being lost to…
Best of AusDoc 2024: Finding distant love, Dr Goldsworthy’s karma, and a GP’s quest for redemption
The AusDoc team has selected some of their favourite stories from over the last year. They range from Dr Lei Min Chen’s fight to practise…
From foster care and med school rejection to intern: Dr Taylor Glover’s story
Dr Taylor Glover was 11 when her home life fell apart. “Growing up, there was drug abuse, alcohol abuse and violence,” she says. “When Mum…
Group A strep: a post-COVID threat
Need to know: Strep A (Streptococcus pyogenes or group A streptococcus) is estimated to cause over 18 million cases of severe disease and 500,000 deaths…
Hearing tests done in shipping containers highlight ‘dire’ state of primary care in the Top End
GPs seeing patients in corridors, hearing tests conducted in shipping containers and poor accommodation are examples of the “dire” health facilities that have been reported…
Cognitive bias, not racial bias, led to Indigenous patient’s misdiagnosis: coroner
Cognitive rather than racial bias led an emergency physician to misdiagnose a 36-year-old Indigenous man with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a coroner has found. The doctor…
‘There are better doctors than me out here. I can only survive the dysfunction by coming and going’
Dr Kirsten Due knew all too well the desperate state of remote area health services. Here is her story. The two-year-old boy is near respiratory failure as we…
‘Cavalier rather than caring’: Judge rejects doctor’s appeal against damning inquest findings
Warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers: This story contains references to a deceased person. A doctor has lost his appeal against a coroner’s findings…
