‘In non-doctor speak, the patient is f***ed’: a GP’s story
GP and writer Dr Sonia Henry put jolts through the medical profession when she published an anonymous opinion piece in 2017 about medicine’s “shameful and…
Tag: Rural Practice
From the archives: How Tina Turner saved more lives than me in the town of Tara
This week came news that Tina Turner, dubbed the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, died aged 83 at her home in Switzerland. Regarded as one…
We don’t have to let IMGs flounder in isolated communities with no backup. Here’s why…
How do we fill medical workforce holes in communities? When it comes to rural communities we rely on parachuting in GPs, typically international medical graduates.…
‘I fell in love with a town I’d never visited’: Julia Creek finally gets a GP
A joke from Dr Adam Louws’ mother-in-law was ultimately the reason that Julia Creek, a town 600km west of Townsville, nabbed its first permanent GP…
‘I studied medicine because my flock was dying’: Meet the Anglican priest turned GP
Confronted by the deaths of parishioners in Papua New Guinea, Anglican priest Father Michael Nixon realised his flock needed more than spiritual support. It was the…
‘If it can happen here it can happen anywhere’: sudden GP exodus triggers community crisis
A GP has described the anguish of thousands of patients in her community who have been left without access to general practice care following the…
More GPs leaving rural practices, but officials defend IMG rule changes
Officials have revealed the number of doctors who abandoned rural practices after new workforce rules let more IMGs bill Medicare from regional cities. In mid-2022 the government declared…
Saving GP practices must rank above the ‘local butcher or baker’, the AMA says
GPs should not be lumped in with “the butcher or the bakery” when it comes to financial support to recover from the next natural disaster,…
800 open job ads ‘a sign of rural doctor crisis’
More than 800 advertised rural doctor positions remain unfilled in what the RDAA calls ‘the tip of the iceberg’. RDAA president Dr Megan Belot said…
The boy who crossed a war zone on his knees and crawled into my clinic
Omar* was a child who had experienced civil war, malnutrition and disease. He had left and crossed through some of the most dangerous places on…
