Junior doctors celebrate landmark class action win on unpaid overtime
Junior doctors have claimed victory in a class action on unpaid overtime, which lawyers are calling a landmark case for Australia. Two years after the case began,…
Tag: Victoria
Premier rejects bid to let doctors initiate VAD discussions with terminally ill patients
The legal ban on doctors initiating discussions on voluntary assisted dying with their patients in Victoria seems certain to remain, despite fresh complaints that it…
Australia’s first public egg and sperm bank opens
Victoria has opened Australia’s first public egg and sperm bank, providing free access to the service for thousands of eligible patients. The new facility opened…
Opioid deaths: Is SafeScript a waste of GPs’ time?
SafeScript, the computer system meant to alert GPs to doctor-shopping patients, was described last month as “either not working as intended, or not being used”. …
‘Huge win for me’: GP sued by naturopath buoyed after pre-trial judgement
A US-based naturopath’s defamation case against a Melbourne GP has been pared back after a pre-trial hearing concluded many of the allegedly defamatory imputations were…
Tapentadol death shows SafeScript ‘not working or not being used’ by GPs: coroner
A patient who overdosed on tapentadol and oxycodone triggered 77 red flags in the real-time prescription monitoring system SafeScript, but doctors only checked his prescribing…
Burnet Institute study on mask mandates slapped with concerns notice
A Burnet Institute study that concluded mask mandates significantly curbed the spread of COVID-19 has attracted a warning notice from the journal that published it. …
Off-label baclofen implicated in dozens of overdose deaths: coroner
More than 30 patients have died in the past decade after overdosing on baclofen, an antispasmodic that is commonly prescribed off label to treat alcohol…
Dr Mark Hobart’s appeal to High Court of Australia rejected
Dr Mark Hobart’s attempt to get the High Court of Australia to review his emergency suspension has been shot down. The Melbourne GP has been…
Doctor performed tracheostomy on wife with pen and knife, inquest hears
A respiratory specialist has been accused of slicing his wife’s throat open with a kitchen knife and pen, because he believed she was choking, then…
