‘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…
Tag: Rural Practice
How these two ‘dinosaur’ GPs have survived the last 40 years working together
A pair of self-described ‘GP dinosaurs’ have just celebrated 40 years of working together in a partnership they say has evolved much like a successful…
‘Things were going great and then I was diagnosed with cancer’: Dr Danielle Allan
Dr Danielle Allan was enjoying life as a rural generalist when a suddenly swollen and sore right leg signalled yet another curveball that would change…
$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…
From city streets to desert lands: A GP’s journey to Uluru
For almost four months of the year, Dr Andrew Boyden swaps his city life for the desert scrub of Uluru. He is one of three…
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…
GP reopens former Tristar practice that closed three years ago — saving patients hundreds on taxi fares
Three years after the local Tristar clinic shut down, a new GP practice has opened in Mission Beach, saving grateful residents hundreds of dollars in…
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…
Pain as a rite of passage: Why does the sadomasochism of medicine continue?
My grandfather was a GP in country NSW in the 1930s and ’40s, back when a GP was the Swiss Army knife of doctors: the…
