Protecting yourself on the job: How GPs can avoid violence from patients Everyone is talking about violence against healthcare workers.
Empathy and burnout: Is there a link? It has been suggested that greater levels of empathy among doctors may be connected to issues of stress and anxiety in the medical profession. Is that correct?
Pioneering suicide-prevention trial extended A nationwide suicide-prevention trial will be extended until 2020 in a bid to discover the best approaches to help stem the annual loss of 3000 Australian lives.
WA Budget: Seemingly little for GPs – but plenty for hospitals Western Australia’s state budget has money for hospitals, but very little that will affect GPs.
Federal Budget 2018–19: An overview for general practice There has been plenty written about this week’s Federal Budget. The RACGP has praised big-ticket spending in specialist GP training, rural health, aged care, and medical research, but there remains little detail on these and other areas.
The right time to see patients with lung conditions before winter May has arrived, and autumn’s cooler weather has come with it. This is the perfect time, Dr Kerry Hancock told newsGP, for GPs to help patients with lung conditions before winter.
‘Canaries in a coalmine’: Children and adolescents in EDs with mental health issues Despite increases in mental health funding, greater numbers of children and adolescents are presenting at Victorian emergency departments with mental illness.
Does artificial intelligence present a threat or promise for GPs? Whether legal clerk or journalist, programmer or even doctor – the story goes that machine-learning algorithms can do your job faster, better and cheaper. But is that story accurate?
Government ignores recommendations from pharmacy review The RACGP is disappointed at the ‘squandered opportunity’ for the Federal Government to make necessary reforms to the pharmacy sector.
Free whooping cough vaccine a step towards health equity: Researcher A GP and public health researcher has hailed news that whooping cough vaccine will be free for every pregnant woman in Australia as a step towards more equitable health outcomes.