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Both the AMA and RACGP are accusing the Pharmacy Board of Australia of shutting down meaningful discussion and ignoring serious patient safety issues in a “tightly orchestrated” forum on pharmacist prescribing. ausdoc.com.au/news/pharmacy-…
The Medical Journal of Australia published Professor Brendan Murphy’s essay on the less discussed issue of the financial barriers to non-GP specialist care. He remains unsettled by some of the fees many patients are now faced with. ausdoc.com.au/news/professor…
Confusing a candle jar full of molten wax for a glass of milk earned this toddler a five-day stay in ICU. ausdoc.com.au/news/medical-m…
Dr Charlie Teo claims Australian brain tumour patients are dying prematurely since he was sanctioned two years ago, with other surgeons now too fearful to operate. ausdoc.com.au/news/neurosurg…
Dr Ashley Gordon’s family were meant to meet him to view his new GP clinic but instead ended up saying goodbye to him in a morgue. ausdoc.com.au/news/sisters-o…
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A new online calculator, developed by The Sydney Morning Herald, shows the average hours for different professions, including various medical specialties, based on the August 2021 Census. ausdoc.com.au/news/is-a-52-h…
There is a growing trend of people turning to AI chatbots for connection, for therapy, for some sense of being loved — often all three. ausdoc.com.au/news/the-chatb…
A revised Australian calculator lets doctors predict a patient’s risk of invasive melanoma based on 16 self-reported factors. ausdoc.com.au/news/aussie-ca…
Australian researchers who have identified 14 fatal overdoses involving prescribed take-home ketamine are warning that the figure is probably an underestimate. ausdoc.com.au/news/take-home…
The Federal Government is removing the threat of a Medicare ban for doctors who fail to complete return of service obligations amid multiple changes to the Bonded Medical Program. ausdoc.com.au/news/govt-ends…
Having expanded the reach of pharmacists into diagnosing medical conditions and prescribing S4 drugs, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia president is going global.
Professor Trent Twomey has just been appointed president of the World Pharmacy Council. ausdoc.com.au/news/pharmacy-…
A prominent GP is calling on the RACGP to fund an advertising campaign that encourages patients to see a GP instead of a telehealth clinic or pharmacist. ausdoc.com.au/news/will-a-pr…
When Professor John Newnham started a campaign to stop deliveries between 37 and 39 weeks without medical indication, his colleagues were concerned.
But within two years, it had markedly reduced preterm and early-term births.
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New guidelines arm GPs with evidence-based deprescribing recommendations for over 100 common medicines, from PPIs to analgesics. ausdoc.com.au/news/deprescri…
Patients with endometriosis-related complications are increasingly looking at negligence claims against doctors for failing to diagnose them sooner, a lawyer says. ausdoc.com.au/news/the-tip-o…
Last week, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne was accused of racism. The hospital’s response, written by its chief executive Nicole Tweddle, does not hold back. ausdoc.com.au/news/an-ugly-a…
The father of a junior doctor who took his own life after being overwhelmed by workload pressures has called for a Senate inquiry into doctor suicides. ausdoc.com.au/news/the-syste…
Clever duck diagnostics were required to identify a small bowel perforation in this elderly lady. ausdoc.com.au/medical-must-s…
The president-elect of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians has survived the first attempt to prevent her from taking over the presidency next year, with members firmly voting down an EGM motion to oust her. info.adg.com.au/dc/I_jzEvydS…
A hospital policy of triaging all Indigenous patients in ED as category three or above is “creating an apartheid situation”, a former Royal Australasian College of Physicians president claims. ausdoc.com.au/news/creating-…