Minister pledges to lift gag law that stops doctors broaching VAD with patients
Doctors will no longer risk being referred to AHPRA for raising voluntary assisted dying as an option for terminally ill patients under a Victorian Government…
Tag: Medical ethics
Review board to examine suicides of eight patients who were rejected for VAD
Eight suicides by patients denied access to voluntary assisted dying are being examined by the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board in Victoria, which could trigger…
GP praised during inquest after taking over sole medical care of woman with life-threatening anorexia
A GP has described the professional isolation he faced after taking on the sole medical care of a woman with terminal anorexia nervosa. In a…
PSR uses customised software to detect GP supervisor’s dodgy MBS billings
A GP supervisor has been found guilty of altering medical records on an “industrial scale” in an attempt to cover up his inappropriate Medicare claims.…
‘Don’t tell them I told you’: How to deal with unsolicited patient information from third parties
“Dad’s actually an alcoholic. He shouldn’t be on the road. But he never tells you this stuff. He just says he’s great. Make sure you…
‘Exceptional circumstances’: Doctors ordered to continue woman’s futile life support
A court has ordered doctors to keep treating a woman they deem to have irreversible brain damage, while her family attempt to raise over $400,000 to…
Should doctors stop using the names of dead white men?
It’s a man’s world — at least when it comes to the eponyms for 3500 body parts, diseases and surgical techniques. Used by doctors every…
What’s the point of clinical anatomy research? Surely the human body is fully mapped by now
You might think that given the view that anatomy started around the time of the ancient Egyptians, we’ve learned all we can from dissecting and…
‘It’s almost like genital mutilation’: Plastic surgeon tells of his work repairing botched labiaplasties
Professor Mark Ashton says the rise in young women having undergone botched labiaplasties is “nothing short of worryingly spectacular”. The number of women coming to…
‘I wonder how much this moron will pay’: Doctors accused of supplying Friends actor with ketamine before his death
Five people including a personal assistant and two doctors have been charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s death in what prosecutors called a “broad underground…
