To paraphrase the Sound of Music song, “How do we solve a problem like Malhotra?” After receiving several complaints, the General Medical Council has decided not to investigate cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, who has become a thorn in the side of the medical […]
Director of the Institute of Biological Research, Prof. Shmuel Shapira, at the laboratory in Ness Ziona on August 6, 2020. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)
Professor Shmuel Shapira, M.D., MPH, who served as the Director […]
Recent correspondence from government advisers outlined that a medical indemnity scheme for health professionals administering the COVID-19 vaccines was never established per se.
For further information please review our letter below titled: Administering of COVID-19 vaccination is likely not an indemnified action – this is notice of your obligations, rights, and potential risks. The […]
The national health regulator has been plagued by reports of widespread bullying, harassment and under-resourcing, creating fears the public is at risk of harm if staff are unable to properly investigate rogue surgeons and doctors.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) hired four external consultants in 2019 after staff […]
Nurses, paramedics and allied health professionals will soon be included in the delivery of primary care as Medicare faces the biggest overhaul in its 40-year history.
Labor is preparing to open up Medicare to a wider range of medical professionals in a bid to save universal health care.
Security guards and legal experts say a recent court case in which a patient was stopped from leaving a Perth hospital […]
A set of international codes are used by the medical industry for billing purposes under Medicare-Medicaid and the private insurance companies, but it’s […]
David Berger isn’t your average rural GP.
When he’s not working as an emergency doctor in remote areas of WA and other parts of the country, the former director of the esteemed British Medical Journal spends his downtime flying sea-planes and other small aircraft.
But it’s not […]
On a Friday in August 2021, Dr Sally Price received a […]
Doctors interest me. More so than ever before.
The old me had come to see them, GPs mainly, as anti-biotic pushers, and I’d settled on a slow simmering resentment of their commoditised and frankly valueless service offering.
