Why junior doctors are being driven away from oncology careers

Junior doctors are deterred from pursuing careers in oncology and palliative medicine after being thrown unprepared into managing complex cancer patients during their intern years, a WA doctor says. Dr Kristyn Langworthy a West Australian medical graduate says the lack of...

Junior doctors are deterred from pursuing careers in oncology and palliative medicine after being thrown unprepared into managing complex cancer...

Lung

Evidence supports SABR as standard of care for inoperable NSCLC

Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) should be the treatment of choice for patients with inoperable peripherally located stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), say the Australian authors of a phase 3 trial published in Lancet Oncology. The randomised...

Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) should be the treatment of choice for patients with inoperable peripherally located stage 1...

Medicolegal

Specialists at legal risk if patients do not have advance care directives

Specialists are at risk of legal action if their patients do not have advance care directives in place outlining their end of life requirements, experts warn. Patients and their carers could potentially sue for assault if given inappropriate treatment at the...

Specialists are at risk of legal action if their patients do not have advance care directives in place outlining their...

Medical politics

Time-based fee structure proposed for specialists in major MBS item overhaul

A proposed overhaul of MBS items for specialists will shed more than 60% of attendance items and replace them with new time-based standard attendance schedule fees. In the first major restructure of attendance items for specialists since the 1970s, the MBS...

A proposed overhaul of MBS items for specialists will shed more than 60% of attendance items and replace them with...