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“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” - Otto von Bismarck So as well as deciding to financially kneecap bulk-billing GPs, the Federal Government has…
Australia’s oxycodone problem has thankfully not risen to the heights of the public health disaster that the USA is dealing with, but it’s been bad enough. Mundipharma, the company that makes OxyContin…
If the news coming out of Canbera tonight is accurate, the Federal Government has finally realized that their GP co-payment (really a tax given the way they intended to implement it) is actually what Rampaging…
Pharmacists are consistently held up as among the most respected and trusted of professionals. They fulfil an important role within the health professions of being the gatekeepers of medication dispensing…
I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started, all I had was swamp! Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show ‘em! It sank into the swamp…
Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are reliev’d, Or not at all. [1600-1 Shakespeare Hamlet iv. iii. 9] There are few more emotional decisions in medicine than the appropriate way to treat…
_“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so…
The latest contribution from the Federal Government in what is rapidly becoming a pogrom against those Australians beset by illness or disability is the interim report entitled A New System for Better…
It seems inevitable according to most commentators that some type of reassessment of DSP recipients under 35 will be introduced into the Budget tonight. Figures as high as 30,000 people to be affected…
Hidden among the chocolates and general festivity over the weekend was a nasty little surprise for those who receive the Disability Support Pension (DSP). Apparently the Federal Government’s suspicion…