A GP guide to mental health in aged care
Need to know: The number of Australians living in residential aged care continues to grow. In June 2022, 178,000 people aged 65 and older were…
Tag: Psychiatry
Meet the 20 specialists recognised in Australia Day Honours
From cardiologists to urologists, 20 non-GP specialists have been recognised on Australia Day for their service to the country. They include pioneering obstetrician Dr Richard…
When your patient’s anxiety stems from an existential threat to humanity
Dr Cybele Dey remembers a seven-year-old boy with severe separation anxiety. The trigger was the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires. While the boy was not affected…
Psychiatrist mass exodus continues with ‘urgent’ arbitration hearing to fix crisis now eight weeks away
The dispute between public psychiatrists and the NSW Government remains unresolved, with an “urgent” five-day arbitration hearing set for 17 March. Mental health minister Rose…
‘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…
New TGA warning on suicide and depression risk with asthma drug
New boxed warnings on montelukast advise doctors to stop treatment if patients develop depression, suicidality or other neuropsychiatric symptoms. The TGA slapped warnings on the…
‘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…
