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…
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…
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…
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…
“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. …
Up to 40 GPs will receive $100,000 over four years if they move to regional Tasmania amid an escalating bidding war for rural doctors between…
“My most memorable case where I had to put my foot down was an 18-year-old tradie apprentice who had put a circular saw across the…
In the first of the pandemic lockdowns Dr David Freedman was wondering how to fill his days, when a pair of eastern rosellas began nesting…
When Dr Clare Hardie was in her third year of medical school, she fell in love with a sheep farmer. At the time, she was…
The idea that GP registrars should have one continuous employer so they can actually accrue leave and benefits, rather than a series of contracts over…
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