The dean of one of the world’s leading medical institutes, Harvard Medical School, has warned of the corrosive effects of...
Doctors have been urged not to use ambiguous abbreviations in medical notes, after a Victorian hospital audit found a worryingly...
A tribunal has found a Sydney doctor guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct because he gave his mobile phone number to...
Australia’s former Chief Medical Officer Professor John Horvath and former head of the Federal Department of Health Jane Halton have...
Personal coaches are an effective way to reduce doctor burnout and should be provided by employers and institutions, the authors...
Claims that medical colleges are trying to limit competition by being ‘slow to expand’ training programs are misleading and distract...
The widely-accepted idea that doctors are more likely to choose to die at home or with fewer interventions than other...
The AMA’s Informed Financial Consent Guide advises specialists to talk about the likely fees a patient will face at the...
Australians spend almost $3 billion a year on complementary therapies and vitamins, an amount similar to that spent on prescription...
The RACP has thrown its support behind a proposal to allow consultant specialists to refer directly for Medicare-rebated consultations with...
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