Doctors lose ‘main tool’ for determining preterm labour
Doctors say they have lost their main tool for determining preterm labour after manufacturers of the rapid fetal fibronectin test announced plans to withdraw it…
Tag: Rural Practice
Hearing tests done in shipping containers highlight ‘dire’ state of primary care in the Top End
GPs seeing patients in corridors, hearing tests conducted in shipping containers and poor accommodation are examples of the “dire” health facilities that have been reported…
What’s happening to our acute care skills? The broken heart of general practice
Dr Ashraf Saleh is a Queensland GP — for now. He is leaving the specialty due to what he sees as its diminished scope, the…
Are dispensing doctors the right response to prescribing pharmacists?
Whenever pharmacists push further into diagnosing and prescribing, GPs ask the question. If the prescriber-dispenser divide is truly an ancient notion, rather than pharmacists prescribing,…
9-year-old’s star turn in GP recruitment campaign
Donning an oversized white coat and stethoscope, William Gleeson turns to the camera and asks: “Are you tired of the humdrum of metro general practice?”…
Specialists dependent on Rex Airlines to fly them into rural communities say its collapse will be catastrophic
Associate Professor Rachael Cordina is among hundreds of doctors who regularly fly on troubled Rex Airlines to treat rural patients. But the cardiologist and her…
My patient travelled to the Kimberley to have his penis cut and smoked over a fire
The Kimberley is a vast, spectacular area of rivers, mountains and nonstop surprises. On arrival at the hospital for a locum, I noticed the reception…
Can a crack squad of GPs on govt salaries fix this state’s workforce woes?
GPs who join the Tasmanian Government’s rapid response team to parachute into practices that need help will be paid $210,000-$288,000 as a base salary, according…
‘There are better doctors than me out here. I can only survive the dysfunction by coming and going’
Dr Kirsten Due knew all too well the desperate state of remote area health services. Here is her story. The two-year-old boy is near respiratory failure as we…
24 surgeries in 24 years: The remarkable story of Dr Caitlin Rutherford-Heard
“The doctor didn’t come to speak to me afterwards. They didn’t tell Mum and Dad that the surgery hadn’t worked. “They didn’t visit me in the ICU or on the ward. I never had a follow-up appointment. …
