Where is the website for doctors to make complaints about patients?
Medicine — as we are all aware — is an art, and it is the human connection between doctor and patient that is the backbone…
Tag: Patients
The year that was: Sharing burial plots, swabbing dogs and other strange things patients asked of GPs
After Dr Pam Rachootin told us of her brief time as an Uber GP – when a patient asked her to pick up Woodroofe’s lemonade…
After three years, the govt’s specialist fee website finally has some specialists’ fees
It’s taken more than 1000 days, but the Federal Government’s specialist fees website has begun listing the fees of a small number of specialists. Back…
Measuring GP outcomes: a crisis of validity and meaning
In recent years, GPs have been nudged into changing their clinical practice through the analysis of proxy variables. Our billing, prescribing and pathology testing data and our recording of other proxy variables are…
Healing with words: a physician’s lament
The practice of medicine has always posed significant challenges, alongside its many rewards. Sadly, doctor burnout is not a new phenomenon. And the added strain…
The broken promise that has taken us away from our patients
I wonder if there is a difference between older and younger physicians when it comes to how much time they spend, and would prefer to…
Hospital room could affect outcomes after surgery
Patients are more likely to die after surgery if they are placed in certain types of rooms to recover, researchers from the University of Michigan…
Telehealth is a godsend, but it certainly has its shortcomings
About 50 doctors in the UK (16 GPs) are known to have died from COVID-19 in the line of duty since the start of the…
Quiz — What shouldn’t be included in insurance company medical reports?
An insurance company sends you a request for a copy of your patient medical records. Take the quiz: × Welcome to AusDoc. Enabling and empowering…
Professor Al Muderis says his medical insurance cover has been revoked for certain surgical procedures
Associate Professor Munjed Al Muderis says he can no longer operate on his osseointegration patients after his medical defence organisation decided to withdraw his cover…
