Australian Doctor

Australian Doctor sees general practice as the foundation of the Australian healthcare system and understands that high-quality primary care significantly impacts the health of the community. We recognize the difficulties that general practitioners encounter within the intricate Australian healthcare landscape and strive to support GPs and their patients. Our goal is to educate, inform, and connect Australian GPs on various aspects of their profession, strengthen the GP community, promote discussions, and advocate for robust general practice.

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Dr Lisa Searle on life between war zones and bulldozers

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.
'If you identify me I'm finished': The IMG surgeons surviving life under RACS

4 days ago | ausdoc.com.au | Paul Smith

Ten years ago, AusDoc wrote about the medical profession’s ghosts, the IMGs being brought in en masse to work as GPs in the rural and remote communities where few doctors wanted to go. Isolated professionally and geographically, many were often exploited, with supervision done by phone with someone they barely knew and had probably never met.
The news today? Doctor shopper's family impersonations and sports physicians get major MBS rebate boost

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.
Doctors demand right to rebel as GP suspended again over 'peaceful' protests

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.
Nurse suspended after stealing morphine from patients

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.
Reality check: GPs are now regarded as expensive script vending machines

1 week ago | ausdoc.com.au | Heather Saxena

The patient sits down at the start of their 15-minute appointment and pulls out their list. My face betrays the surge of anticipatory anxiety inspired by its length, and the patient is quick to reassure me: “I know we’ve only got a single appointment, but I just need my scripts and a couple of quick referrals!” × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every unwanted comment about my weight

1 week ago | ausdoc.com.au | Heather Saxena

Something I’ve struggled with my whole life is my weight. Not because I’m unhappy with my body, but because others seem to be. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here. Remember MeForgot Password?
GP who botched face lift to treat acne scarring had never practised the surgery: tribunal

1 week ago | ausdoc.com.au | Heather Saxena

A GP without training in invasive cosmetic procedures who performed a face lift for acne scarring that breached the patient’s occipital artery has been struck off. The Brisbane doctor’s only experience with face lift surgery had been “assisting” another doctor during two procedures seven years earlier, the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal heard.
Bariatric surgeons under pressure? Life beyond the $69,000 premiums

1 week ago | ausdoc.com.au | Paul Smith

Are bariatric surgeons in trouble? Many are facing sky-high premiums fuelled by an apparent rise in patient complaints. And what about the GLP-1s? Will they shrink future demand for their skills? × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here.
'Treat the cause of high specialist fees, not the symptoms,' says RACP president

1 week ago | ausdoc.com.au | Paul Smith

The physicians’ college says high specialist costs are a symptom of an unhealthy system but is yet to respond on whether greedy specialists are partly to blame. The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has issued a media release following the publication of a new Grattan Institute report this week that takes aim at “extreme fee chargers” — specialists whose fees are typically three times the average MBS schedule fee.