Dr Tony Marshal from Frankston, Victoria, reminds us the bendy little blighters are brilliant at removing foreign bodies from noses and ears. They already come in various interesting shapes, and Dr Marshal turns one end into a loop, as pictured. An alternative tool is created by using forceps to get a short, sharp angle at the very tip. Every tip …
WHEN the time comes to sell my house, I am not hiring the RACGP to do it for me, but I’ll certainly consider the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.Generally, there is only a handful of established approaches to resource allocation, and even fewer ways when applied to the area of healthcare.Examples are rational, incremental and pragmatic. These styles, although they may …
I DO NOT necessarily condone the high-profile activism of euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke,1but a sensible debate about whether a euthanasia right should exist is overdue.Euthanasia opponents present the possibility of depression during the final decision-making process as theirchief concern. Even with depression, is that enough reason to deprive an individual of a right to not want tosuffer?The implication of …
I confess that I do get depressed on public holidays such as the Queen’s Birthday! But this is not due to some personal disaffection with the Queen. The reason is that, it is getting harder and harder to enjoy some forced and unwarranted holidays and survive with $300,000 per annum.On those kind of forced holidays, not only I can’t make …
“If I see child abuse in Australia and I don’t report it, I can get into enormous trouble. If I see child abuse in Nauru and I do report it, I might go to prison for two years”.This was how Professor David Isaacs, a NSW paediatrician, summed up the absurdity of the situation as it applies to Australian doctors. This, …
I HAVE personally known only a handful of centenarians, a couple of whom were my patients. None was overweight, let alone obese. One of them told me the secret of his longevity. And by longevity I mean living a long time in good health. He summed up the secret by saying simply: “I eat to live and not live to …
An overhaul of the MBS must seek to reward GP expertiseI still remember some of the days during my formative years as a medical student, very clearly. I trained in a developing country, Pakistan, where partly due to lack of adequate medical facilities, doctors had to be very efficient as well as everything else.Some of my professors, especially is surgical …
GPs play a central role in the Health Care System akin to a conductor in an orchestra. While major differences between how GPs communicate with patients are rare, the same could not always be said for some other members of the broader “Health Care Team”. You would never hear a GP sending a patient with a suspicious lesion to a …
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