Dr Adam Louws made national news by taking a GP job in a tiny town — now he’s leaving
When GP Dr Adam Louws took a job in Julia Creek it made headlines from the ABC to the Daily Mail. The Queensland town, 600km…
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‘We just want to visit the children’: These GPs want to retire but can’t
GP husband-and-wife duo Dr Diana Coote and Dr Clement Gordon have worked in the same small town for 36 years. Now in their 70s with…
‘CT in a truck’ fleet won’t be ready when national lung cancer screening starts
GPs will start screening patients for lung cancer in July but outback towns will not see the promised mobile CT scanners until at least November,…
$130,000 salaries for registrars the new normal? Five states now trialling employment of GP trainees
GP registrars will receive salaries of $130,000 or more under Queensland’s four-year trial of the single-employer model. It means the Federal Government is now funding…
Dr Giulia Kitchin died of brain cancer before she could realise her dream — now, her husband has delivered on her legacy
GP Dr Giulia Kitchin was only part way through renovating a dilapidated cottage into a refuge for homeless women when she died of a brain…
Meet the six GPs honoured on Australia Day
Rugby doctors, rural doctors and a former deputy state premier all feature in this year’s list of GPs honoured on Australia Day. AusDoc wants to…
Best of AusDoc 2024: Finding distant love, Dr Goldsworthy’s karma, and a GP’s quest for redemption
The AusDoc team has selected some of their favourite stories from over the last year. They range from Dr Lei Min Chen’s fight to practise…
From hospital groundskeeper to doctor: ‘Some days I miss only having to worry about the lawns’
When Dr Marcin Skladaniec began with Queensland Health, his greatest responsibility was to keep his local hospital’s lawns flourishing and mowed. Ten years later the…
MPs want to stop hundreds of GP practices recruiting IMGs
Independent MPs have blasted the Federal Government for allowing hundreds of outer-urban GP practices to recruit IMGs. Two years ago, the government radically extended the…
AHPRA fast track to specialist registration attracts its first 50 overseas doctors
Nearly 50 doctors from overseas have applied to the Medical Board of Australia’s fast-track pathway to work as specialist GPs in Australia. The controversial pathway,…
