Doctor burnt son with iron to get him out of bed: tribunal
A Perth doctor who burnt his teenage son with an iron has been suspended for four months. The boy, then aged 16, had chronic pain…
Tag: WA (Western Australia)
GP pleads guilty to attempted murder of six-year-old with neurological disorder
A GP accused of aiding a mother’s attempt to kill her six-year-old daughter with a prescription drug has pleaded guilty to attempted murder, according to…
Surgeon who repeatedly dismissed adrenal malignancy as haematoma found guilty of misconduct
An endocrine surgeon said he dismissed imaging reports that showed a young patient likely had adrenal cancer because he became “fixated” on the idea that…
Doctor who raised alarm about morgue case acted with ‘integrity’
WA officials have denied suggestions a palliative care patient may have been alive when he was transferred to a Perth morgue. The state coroner’s court is…
Mark McGowan accused (again) of trashing GPs over hospital crisis
The RACGP has hit back at WA Premier Mark McGowan for blaming much of the state’s hospital crisis on GPs who had stopped bulk-billing and…
Why payroll tax is an idiot’s attack on general practice
Perth GP Professor Max Kamien tells of his own failed attempt to escape the taxman's clutches.
Suspension overturned for intern accused of sexual assault as a student
A WA tribunal replaced the suspension - relating to an alleged assault of a fellow medical student - with conditions on the doctor's registration.<…
State expands pharmacists’ vax role, including HPV for teens
From this week WA pharmacists can inoculate kids from five against flu and will be able to offer HPV vaccination for adolescents later this year.
Junior doctors ‘denied time off’ because of workforce shortages
The AMA WA says doctors-in-training are accruing months of annual leave they cannot take.
Omicron cases will rise despite border delay, WA data shows
Infectious disease modelling expert predicts the state's cases will peak at 430 hospitalisations.
