GP clinics are small businesses. We want to help our patients,but altruism is not a sustainable business model. We can’t keep making a loss for bulk-billed consultations.
New laws that give the health regulator powers to publicly name individuals being investigated over misconduct claims will only be used in “exceptional circumstances”.
A hospital in the United States has poached the services of a leading heart surgeon at the Children’s Hospital in Westmead.
Simone Williams was left deformed after she fell prey to a cosmetic doctor’s photoshopped social media posts.
Billions of dollars are being rorted from Medicare each year,including by billing dead people and falsifying patient records to boost profits.
Victorians are waiting weeks to secure an appointment with a GP,with one health network chief executive saying the system is experiencing “varying levels of crisis”.
Not a single neurosurgeon in Australia or New Zealand has provided a letter of support for the embattled Sydney doctor,a disciplinary inquiry has heard.
The neurosurgeon gave untruthful evidence and “opportunistically” made up evidence or changed it as a disciplinary hearing unfolded,it has been claimed.
The neurosurgeon told a disciplinary hearing the only error he made was that it was witnessed by the patient’s daughter.
A disciplinary hearing has heard that a missing MRI scan has now been found amid a testy exchange over whether the prominent neurosurgeon cut too far into a patient’s brain.
Korana Musicki was forced to take legal action against the tech giant before it would reveal the identity of the poster.