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Dr Susie Muir: Doctors who give everything to their job have nothing left for their families
3+ hour, 34+ min ago (76+ words) Every day in healthcare, I watch brilliant people run on empty. They are amazing healthcare professionals who give everything to their work and then wonder why there is not enough left in the tank for the people they love. Over…...
Medical Must-See: Same diff? Gut bacteria in patient’s leg
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (78+ words) Clostridioides difficile is best known as a gut pathogen causing severe diarrhoea and colitis. But in this case, it turned up deep inside a patient’s tibia. Writing in BMJ Case Reports, US clinicians say the male patient was aged in…...
Medical watchdog has no duty of care for doctors under investigation, UK court rules following anaesthetist's suicide
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (125+ words) The family of an anaesthetist who died by suicide after being investigated by police and the UK medical regulator has lost their legal bid to sue the regulator for negligence. The UK Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that…...
Raise the 30/20 Medicare telephone rule to 30/50 if petrol crisis worsens, doctors tell govt
2+ day, 20+ min ago (117+ words) Australia must prepare to soften Medicare’s 30/20 rule if petrol shortages drive up demand for telehealth consults, say doctors’ groups. Currently, doctors who claim services for 30 or more telephone consults on 20 days with a rolling 12-month period are automatically referred to…...
Deceased patients booked in for operations by NT's malfunctioning patient record system
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (128+ words) The botched $335 million rollout of a digital patient record system in NT public hospitals has led to dead patients being booked in for operations and left doctors in fear of speaking out. The claims have been made by the AMA…...
Medical students face new 'brain bleed' subject far worse than neuroanatomy
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (315+ words) Medical school students are facing changes to the curriculum of the sort that, if they know what is coming, may trigger a bigger heart sink than neuroanatomy. It’s likely to be called Medicare – An Introduction. The Federal Government has put…...
AHPRA defends embrace of anti-Semitism definition in two-hour Royal Commission hearing
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (135+ words) AHPRA will not ditch its contested anti-Semitism definition to guide investigations, but it has admitted it still has no clear idea how it will use the definition to assess doctors and other health workers accused of misconduct. The watchdog has…...
MBS Quick Guide — download the August issue
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (58+ words) AusDoc’s August MBS Quick Guide is now available. Use this quick guide as a handy reference for in-practice billing needs for some of the most commonly used GP attendance items. The telehealth MBS items Quick Guide is available below on…...
Glioblastoma and the legacy of Professor Richard Scolyer's 'patient zero' immunotherapy experiment
1+ week, 2+ day ago (120+ words) “I didn’t know if his brain was going to blow up or not.” Dr Helen Wheeler is talking about Professor Richard Scolyer. He died in June having become a self-declared guinea pig, “patient zero”, in an experiment to discover whether…...
Tribunal suspends surgeon who performed colonoscopies in 5-10 minutes
1+ week, 3+ day ago (116+ words) A surgeon whose failure to detect a patient’s cancer prompted a recall of 2000 colonoscopy patients — and whose “catastrophic error” contributed to another patient’s death — has been suspended for six months. Surgeon Dr Liu-Ming Schmidt, from Albury in NSW, also performed…...