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3 days ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Carmel Sparke
GP Dr Lisa Searle’s life is one of extremes — from providing medical care in war-torn countries to chaining herself to bulldozers in old-growth forests.
In fact, she had barely unpacked from her recent posting in Sudan before she headed back to her “frontline direct-action work” with the Bob Brown Foundation to slow logging in Tasmanian forests.
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5 days ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Carmel Sparke
Welcome to your bite-sized wrap-up. Below, we provide news summaries of what is going on in medicine, with links to the articles, opinions, studies and posts.
Sport and exercise physicians secure higher MBS rebates × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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6 days ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Carmel Sparke
Doctors are demanding protection from actions by the UK medical watchdog after a GP was suspended over her climate change and animal rights protests.
Back in 2023, Dr Sarah Benn was arrested by police when she sprayed chalk on gates and a wall at Sequani Limited in Ledbury, a company involved in animal testing. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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1 week ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Carmel Sparke
A nurse has been sanctioned after repeatedly ‘misappropriating’ morphine from a regional ED, including doses intended for patients.
The WA State Administrative Tribunal said he stole a variety of painkillers on 34 occasions over a period of eight months, forging records and signing out medications that were often not prescribed for patients.
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1 week ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Carmel Sparke
Welcome to your bite-sized wrap-up. Below, we provide news summaries of what is going on in medicine, with links to the articles, opinions, studies and posts.
Surgeon who tried to murder colleague sentenced to life × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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1 week ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Carmel Sparke
The first time it happened, staff at a GP clinic decided a human poo on their doorstep was a one-off number two.
But when the person emptied their bowels four times on their entry way in a matter of months, the clinic based in Perth went public. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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1 week ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Carmel Sparke
A pathologist and her radiologist husband along with their three young children were among those killed in the Air India crash last week.
Dr Komi Vyas and Dr Prateek Joshi were flying to the UK with their nine-year-old daughter Miraya, and four-year-old twin sons, Pradyut and Nakul. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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2 weeks ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Carmel Sparke
A panicked teenager allegedly told friends he had stabbed Dr Ash Gordon four or five times after fleeing from the scene of the attack.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty to murdering the GP but guilty to two counts of aggravated burglary after breaking into his Melbourne home. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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2 weeks ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Carmel Sparke
Welcome to your bite-sized wrap-up. Below, we provide news summaries of what is going on in medicine, with links to the articles, opinions, studies and posts.
The $30 million question: Minister accused of misleading the public over true cost of psychiatrist pay demands × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
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2 weeks ago | 
ausdoc.com.au | Carmel Sparke
Billed as a state-of-the-art facility, Northern Beaches Hospital had so few ultrasound machines in operating theatres, anaesthetists began hiding them to ensure they had access, doctors have claimed.
In other fresh allegations about the troubled Sydney public hospital built and run by the private sector, senior clinicians have described dangerously low junior doctor staffing numbers, inadequate supervision of registrars and equipment fails.
