RACGP publishes guidelines for GPs using AI scribes to draft medical notes
The RACGP has published guidelines for GPs using AI to generate medical notes based on recordings of their consultations, warning they could become over-reliant on…
Tag: Medical ethics
GP who called abortion doctors ‘contract killers’ faces tribunal after five-year emergency suspension
“This is probably one of the most important cases that’s ever been put in this tribunal in the last 30 years. “It goes to the…
Could AI become the ultimate decider for end-of-life care?
Doctors obviously lack imagination. While the medical profession has been anguished at the prospect of their mass redundancy as a result of diagnostic machine learning,…
Medicine will soon be considered too important to be left to doctors
We practise not in a cocoon but in a melange (swamp?) of law, regulation and ethics. They are not separate entities but are intertwined like…
How will Dr Ernest Wong find true love if everyone within 200km is his patient?
Six months ago, Dr Ernest Wong moved from London to the tiny town of Wudinna, a six-hour drive from Adelaide. As the town’s first permanent…
Court mandates chemo for teen with disabilities against the wishes of her mother and paediatrician
A court has ordered a teenager with developmental disabilities to undergo leukaemia treatment involving dozens of general anaesthetics over the objections of her mother and…
Prisoners in palliative care are still being shackled to their hospital beds
Eric Whittaker spent the final hours of his life lying unconscious shackled to his hospital bed with leg cuffs. The 35-year-old Indigenous man was an…
Can offers of cash persuade people to get their COVID-19 and flu shots?
Going into winter 2023, only 38% of adults were up to date on COVID-19 shots, and 27% had received a flu shot, according to a…
Medical regulator says sorry for pursuing doctors over their sexual orientation
The UK medical regulator has apologised to doctors it struck off or pursued for “engaging in consensual sexual activity and intimacy with other men”. The…
GP back in court again after securing $30 million in patient’s will
A GP who inherited most of his patient’s $30 million estate is headed back to court after two other beneficiaries and the Salvation Army took…
