‘Being an aged care doctor is not about being a saint — the rewards are there in front of you’
GP Dr Fiona Wallace, who trained in the Hebridean islands of Scotland, became disillusioned with her work at an Australian rural ED after seeing so…
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‘Health ministers have been fed something toxic’: Medical board to begin fast-tracking overseas doctors from next week
News that Australia had opened a new fast-track super-highway to import foreign specialists to fix its beleaguered health system resulted in a big exclusive for…
Dodgy locums, ‘extortionate’ flights and the battle against loneliness: The lives of surgeons in the bush
What is life like for a general surgeon who moves to a rural area, often far away from colleagues and the opportunity for a hallway…
‘You can’t put a price on getting a GP’: Local council spends 10% of its budget on new doctor
When a small WA town heard their GP was leaving, the council’s phones ran hot with residents urging the shire to secure another doctor. The…
‘The retrieval guy asked which patient to take — there was only room for one’
“There is a little town on the NSW and Queensland border called Tenterfield. It is the only time I have ever had a chopper on…
Locum fees should be capped amid ‘excruciating’ workforce crisis, says next ACRRM president
“While we continue to have locums paid as handsomely as they are, we will continue to have excruciating workforce shortages.” Dr Rod Martin, ACRRM’s president-elect,…
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…
GPs offered $100,000 cash incentives as state govts ramp up bidding war
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…
Why the next generation of doctors could shun city practices
“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…
