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"The department said some suppliers advertised a 30% revenue increase for health professionals with no additional hours or patient consultations, “which has implications for [Medicare Benefits Scheme] costs”."

“If [scribes] save clinicians time … the public deserves to know if that time means better care, better access, or if it just means more billable activity, which doesn’t help us with the burnout issue.”

I understand the concern about patient privacy, but I'm uneasy about their focus on increased billable activity.

Im starting in August, moving from Scotland. My base pay is 120k plus penalties. It is an ED job. Can anyone who has worked in darwin tell me how the lifestyle is, what is rent like? And what is the take home pay? What are the locum rates like?

The post made recently by a JMO was asking whether to give CPR while the patient was sitting upwards...

I don't mean to shame anyone but why are we asking questions like these? The reason I make this post is because I've noticed a bit of an influx of junior doctors not knowing basic things they should know.

What are the things that you should you do in year 1?

Is research, getting top grades in school important? Or are there other things that carry more weight than those two?

Don't we all think of anatomy in terms of it on ourselves, looking down from above? My liver is on the right side of my mental image of a cross section at that level; my spleen is on the left.

I don't have the same issue with coronal images or plain films - the right/left swap is intuitive and on autopilot, because we have spent all our lives seeing people from the front.

Nothing else in life gets rendered from below. Nobody draws a map of a building from below. Nobody draws a map of a mountain from below. Every other cross section in daily life is viewed from above.

"It's because you examine the patient from the end of the bed", they say. Maybe if you're a podiatrist. But all the important organs are in the upper half of the body and that's where you're standing when you examine.

Whoever came up with the inferior view convention was having a laugh; scheming to prank future doctors like myself into wasting 3 seconds on every single CT abdomen looking for an appendix in the left side, before my brain remembers they screwed up.

A prank to catch the eye of passing-by-colleagues, amazed that I have a situs inversus patient, when it was really just a frustrated click of the PACS mirror button.

This would be my priority if I had a time machine.

Many surgeons have said that they have entered their specialty because they have “found their people”. What is the “people” in each of the RACS specialties + Ophthalmology like?

I've recently accepted an offer to South Eastern QLD GP training, and am moving with my little family, including an infant who will benefit from a good, and most importantly safe daycare. Hence, ideally the town ought to be a little more established in this sense. We do not have any close family members in Aus, so the move is nerve-wrecking given we have established a lovely friends network in my current state. However I think is necessary given we are at the stage exploring which state/ area is the best to raise kids and to live in.

Apart from that, based on your experience, which areas/ practices are supportive and provide decent working environment for the registrars' growth? I'm on a rural generalist pathway, so that will involve working in a close by hospital as well.

I'd love somewhere close by the coastal region, or towns with vibes +/- foodie spots however the above takes precedence for sure.

Any thoughts will be much appreciated.

When I got to the scene the patient had been pulled out already, on the floor flat. Started CPR w chin lift/jaw thrust.

But it made me wonder, what should I have done if the pt was still in the car seat? Given how it would be risky for their spine to move them to the floor for CPR.

Would it be better to do CPR while they are vertical in their seat? Or instruct nearby helpers to somehow safely get them flat on the floor? Latter seems too risky but CPR is also imminent.

How are doctors of all people not allowed to speak out about human rights abuses? : r/ausjdocs

Was working a long shift and didn't even get a chance to reply.

Didn't get a message from mods. I don't think I broke any rules, was pretty specific in my wording not to. I deliberately avoided even mentioning any groups for the above reason.

But I thought we were allowed to discuss things of concern here? This is getting to a pretty ridiculous level now.

Medicine = saving lives
BUT at the same time doctors = banned from speaking about saving lives.........
This is getting a bit ridiculous.

Generally I have been happy with the moderation of this subreddit and I think the mod(s) have been doing a great job, but this concerns me about the whole situation even more now.

Note how many of the RNs in the comments were far less than thrilled with the prospect of extra responsibility, liability with for a just couple of dollars more per hour.

Tells me either the pharmacy guild are a bunch of pelicans with no idea what's about to hit them.
Or that there's far more profit to be made.

Currently an intern keen on orthopaedics as a career with my ortho term at the end of the year. Just wanting to know what a day in the life is for an unaccredited ortho reg/ PHO in terms of an AVERAGE DAY start time, meetings, list/ward duties... and usual home time.

I would also love to know how many hours on average you did AFTER coming home from work to work on research, CV building, list planning, CPD etc... on a usual day.

many thanks!!!! Just trying to gauge how much of a hermit i would need to be. lol

Hi everyone! Pgy2 here, in NSW, about to start my first set of 12hr ICU night shift in the coming week. I had done nights on the ward before and found them tedious at time but manageable. Just wondering if there are anything else I would need to be prepared for for ICU nights. Thank you!

State MP on Facebook bragging about getting 3rd line Abx for UTI and saving $110 on seeing their GP. Getting slammed about it in the comments, then threatening defamation action against those who suggest pharmacy guild has donated money to ALP.

Hey everyone,
Hoping to seek some insight into your experience securing JHO jobs through the RMO campaign at hospitals that were oversubscribed for internship; are they often competitive to get a JHO rotational role at for PGY2? (Specifically GCUH/PA/RBWH). Or do the number of available JHO positions increase a heap compared to internship & you can usually secure one at most metro hospitals?
I understand the RMO campaign has closed now; but are there any other tips on how to navigate getting a position?
Appreciate any guidance/insight!

Do all Hospitals for the Queensland RMO campaign conduct interviews for candidates that get shortlisted? If you have secured a RMO job offer last year through the campaign, can you share your experience? TIA