Ditching the RACGP for cheaper CPD homes is bad for general practice
It is that time of the year again, when all our professional expenses seem to be due at once. Medical indemnity insurance is always expensive,…
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Cash deficits, politics and the IMG pipeline: Why medical colleges are under the cosh
Dr Death may have been a difficult personality with a misplaced confidence in his own talents. He may also have been a fraudster willing to…
Red Book undergoes revamp with new sections on first antenatal visit, anxiety and gambling
Routine screening for thyroid disease and proteinuria in pregnant women during each antenatal visit is no longer recommended, according to the latest edition of the…
Greens Senator accuses ‘disingenuous’ pharmacy guild of lobbying for vapes to be made S2
For a group pushing for pharmacists to diagnose more, prescribe more and dispense more, it seems there is one place it does not want to…
Guild outraged over political deal to turn pharmacists into ‘vape garbage collectors’
The Federal Government’s snap decision to make vapes an OTC medicine from October has outraged the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, which says treating pharmacists as…
Nurse-led clinics costing taxpayers $195 per consult: official figures
Health officials misled the public about the cost per service at ACT’s nurse-led walk-in clinics by burying roughly $10 million in expenses, reveal documents obtained…
‘The children were sent to an expected death … We could do nothing’: The memories haunting Dr Michael Clements
Dr Michael Clements tries to avoid watching the bloody images coming out of Gaza. It is not because he does not care but because of…
Former RACGP presidential candidate slammed for tweet about killing of doctor’s son
Doctors have slammed a former RACGP presidential candidate for suggesting a suspected murderer may have been ‘goaded’ before killing his two-year-old son and himself. Dr…
Coroner says all GPs should be subject to compulsory family violence training
A coroner has criticised the RACGP for failing to mandate its six-hour family violence CPD program after a patient who had told her GP that…
‘A nightmare’: Doctors react after govt promises patients immediate access to test results
“A patient with a large uterine fibroid read and misunderstood the radiologist’s report. “She believed her condition was terminal. “I was called to her home…
