Do NSW psychiatrists deserve a 25% pay rise? Here’s my take as an emergency doctor
Watching from afar, the new US regime’s changes to the management of healthcare, superimposed on an already dysfunctional system, elicit a sense of foreboding. The…
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Mental health minister battling psychiatrists in pay dispute told to quit after $750 Aus Day chauffeur trip
The NSW Minister for Mental Health, already under fire over the mass resignation of psychiatrists from the state’s collapsing mental health system, is facing fresh…
‘It was emotionally difficult for them’: Emergency doctor treated by friends and colleagues after 10 metre fall
Dr Fraser Bliesner has experienced first hand the miraculous impact of a pain team after a shocking 10m fall onto concrete just weeks before he…
‘I did not turn up for work this morning and I felt lost’: Psychiatrist Dr Suzy Goodison on resigning and the coming catastrophe
Dr Suzy Goodison is one of the NSW psychiatrists who resigned from the crumbling public mental health system this morning. Ministers continue to ignore pleas…
Ministers and 200 psychiatrists in dangerous stand-off as mass resignations start tomorrow
It feels like a Wild West stand-off, one where no-one has yet blinked. Should nothing change, tomorrow we will discover what happens to an under-resourced…
‘Crisis? It’s going to be catastrophic’: We speak to one of the NSW hospital psychiatrists left behind
Two hundred public psychiatrists will resign on Tuesday unless the NSW Government executes a massive turnaround on pay and conditions. Adjunct Professor Chris Ryan is…
Healthcare system faces meltdown after 200 hospital psychiatrists resign — AusDoc speaks with one of them
The clock is ticking on one of the biggest crises in the Australian public hospital system. In seven days, more than 200 staff psychiatrists in…
Dr Nick Coatsworth warns of ‘specialist pay arms race’ as 200 public hospital psychiatrists threaten to quit
Dr Nick Coatsworth has attacked threats from more than 200 of the 260 psychiatrists working in NSW public hospitals to quit next week, saying the…
Missing medical student survived 13 days in the Snowy Mountains eating wild berries and two muesli bars
A 23-year-old medical student who was missing for nearly two weeks in the Snowy Mountains has been found alive after surviving on foraged berries and two muesli bars.…
Police officer who tasered 95-year-old aged care patient found guilty of manslaughter
A police officer who tasered a 95-year-old aged care resident last year faces up to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of manslaughter…
