The Albanese Government will pursue nationally-consistent ADHD prescribing rules but has equivocated on 14 other recommendations from last year’s Senate report on ADHD assessment and…
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All my life I have been puzzled by schizophrenia. My first patient with the condition was Eric. I was a medical student and he was…
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