Doctor takes aim at ‘pompous, bow tie-wearing’ specialist training committees
A prominent doctor has taken a swipe at city-centric “pompous, bow tie-wearing” specialists on training committees. Dr Colin McClintock’s day job is as a renal…
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‘I carry sheets in my car to cover the dead’: The danger that lurks on rural roads
I rounded the sweeping 80km/h corner on a tail of slowing cars and brakelights. The garbage truck was splayed across the road on its side.…
It’s the ‘sickest, oldest population in the country’ yet GP practices are shutting down
At the start of the year, Dr Columbine Mullins’ practice on Hobart’s fringes was thriving. She had taken it over from a corporate owner five…
How will Dr Ernest Wong find true love if everyone within 200km is his patient?
Six months ago, Dr Ernest Wong moved from London to the tiny town of Wudinna, a six-hour drive from Adelaide. As the town’s first permanent…
Hospital staff posed as ‘patients’ so their urgent care clinic looked busier during ministerial visit
Staff at a rural hospital pretended to be ill patients, including one who arrived by ambulance, to make its urgent care clinic appear busier for…
‘You’re expected to manage anything’: Life as a doctor on a tiny island
Dr Jodie McCoy was already working at Norfolk Island’s only hospital when she was a teenager, as a lifestyle officer at its aged care component.…
‘We try to give patients hope that things will get better’: GP at pelvic pain clinic
When Dr Andrew Leech started his pelvic pain clinic, his number one focus was endometriosis. But six months in, he has learnt “not all pelvic…
My shower turned to shit — and I mean that literally
Back in the early 1990s I worked as a doctor in the Dabaab refugee camp which at the time was providing a safe haven for…
Is this a health minister’s dream — an Australian medical clinic with no doctors?
The Federal Government has finally succeeded in helping to deliver what you suspect is every health minister’s secret dream — a medical clinic with no…
‘I hadn’t worked in emergency for 40 years’: GP leaves his practice to work as a locum 3000km from home
Ready to retire from solo practice in Geelong, but not wanting to hang up his stethoscope, Dr Frank Scheelings headed 3000km north to work as…
