Australian Doctor News

GP deputising services see another rebate cut

15th January 2020
The long-promised cut to the Medicare rebate for hundreds of thousands of urgent after-hours home visits by non-VR doctors…
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Medicare
6Minutes News

Top docs slam Pete Evans over selfie with JFK's anti-vax nephew

14th January 2020
Top doctors have again slammed paleo diet advocate Pete Evans over his support of anti-vax messages, telling the celebrity…
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6Minutes News

Bushfire health impacts 'unprecedented', says RACP

13th January 2020
Doctors have already seen an increase in respiratory illnesses since the bushfire emergency began, in what the Royal…
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Professor John Wilson
Medical Observer Opinion

7 visions for 2020 - this GP looks ahead

6th January 2020
In the non-metric country of my origin, currently tainted as Trumpland, we used to talk of having 20/20 vision, and here we…
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2020
Australian Doctor News

Which electorate has the highest GP out-of-pocket costs?

20th December 2019
Two-thirds of all patients are receiving care for free every time they visit their GP, new Medicare data shows. In the…
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Money
Australian Doctor News

Charlie Teo, UTI menace and 40-minute care plans: AusDoc stories of the year

20th December 2019
Australian Doctor is employing the retrospecs to take a look back at the main stories of year.  At number 6 and 7 we reach…
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2019
Australian Doctor News

Sexist textbooks, BERT's return and the $500K defamation case: AusDoc stories of 2019

20th December 2019
It's part two - the fate of BERT; one of the biggest defamation payouts in Australian legal history; and, to begin with, why…
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2019