‘The NSW Government needs to realise people will die’: Psychiatry registrar quits for Victoria
NSW is home for psychiatry registrar Dr Nithya Reddy. It is where she grew up, undertook all of her medical training so far and became…
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Are the ‘clinical marshmallows’ about to strike back?
The medical administrator who accused junior doctors of being “clinical marshmallows” had been asking doctors to work 10 consecutive night shifts, a doctors’ union has…
NSW Mental Health Minister did not question $750 chauffeured ride to winery ‘because I was excited by my birthday lunch’
The NSW Minister for Mental Health has defied calls to quit over a $750 taxpayer-funded trip to a winery for her birthday lunch. Rose Jackson,…
The NSW psychiatry registrars left behind: ‘We’ll be propping up a broken system. We won’t be learning’
After six years of psychiatry training, registrar Dr Lauren Amor was ready to qualify and take her place as a NSW junior psychiatrist. She would…
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…
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…
