Four GPs admit breaches of Medicare’s 30/20 rule for phone consults: PSR
The PSR has reported its first cases of doctors repaying Medicare rebates after breaching the 30/20 rule on phone consults. Introduced in October 2022, the…
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Why radiologists do not expect that AI will put them out of business
As the buzz around AI grew, some doctors started hinting to their radiologist colleagues about finding another specialty because, obviously, radiologists would be the first…
A third of GPs ‘rarely or never use’ My Health Record for patient care
Figures showing that almost one in three GPs rarely use the multibillion-dollar My Health Record underline the desperate need for a Federal Government fix, the…
Caring for your dying patients through a computer screen: ‘I wanted to give them a big hug’
“People were almost grieving for their lost ability to see patients and families in person.” Throughout 2019, Victorian medical oncologist and palliative care physician Dr…
The GP angel investor: ‘A lot of frustrated clinicians like me are in the system wanting to fix it’
When Dr Amandeep Hansra graduated, she struggled to pick a specialty. “One week I wanted to be a surgeon, the next week I wanted to…
Is implanting spinal cord stimulators for pain really the next pelvic mesh scandal?
For months, private health insurers have been demanding that the TGA stop doctors implanting spinal cord stimulators. Private Healthcare Australia says the devices, which involve…
Pancreatitis, party mishaps and panic — the clinical cases where AI fails
Imaging misinterpretation was meant to fall quickly to AI’s diagnostic supremacy, but a study of 150 clinical challenges suggests that imaging, numbers and party hijinks…
Meet the GP who engineered his own AI assistant: ‘My clinical work still pays better’
Dr Horst Herb is a rural GP by day. His evenings, however, are dedicated to coding an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to assess studies before…
Scammers try to steal money from GPs buying tickets to international medical conference
Scammers are targeting GPs with fraudulent versions of an upcoming conference being staged by the World Organisation of Family Doctors. Organisers have urged GPs who…
Hardware, plants, diastolic BP — Bunnings-based hypertension screening trial is just the beginning
A clinical trial is snagging Bunnings shoppers for a blood pressure check in a bid to reach patients who do not typically consider themselves at…
