Psychiatry people! Fiona Reilly and I are running a whole-day Narrative Medicine workshop at your upcoming pre-Congress day on Sunday 19th May, 2024 in Canberra. It's going to be so much fun. Come along, we'd love to meet you.🎈🎈🎈

You can register here:
congress.ranzcp.org/pre-congress-w…

Can we build a system where you don't need to do bloody courses to understand how to correctly bill Medicare?

The complexity is unnecessary, stressful, and sometimes detrimental to the doctor-patient relationship.

Dr Margaret Faux Synapse Medical Services Adj Prof Karen Price, 20-22 RACGP Past Prez Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) President AMA President Mark Butler MP Leo Cussen PrivateHealthcareAus Help me to understand. You worked for free so that another company could charge for a course? Or is that course also free? Who exactly IS offering the course anyway? PS Medicare truly is broken if we need a course to understand it .. Mark Butler MP Adj Prof Karen Price, 20-22 RACGP Past Prez AMA President

Lawyers are leaving the community legal sector due to low pay, creating an experience gap abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

Professor Tony Birch teaching writing craft and #narrativemedicine to medical students at UniMelb MDHS with Fiona Reilly and me. So much joy and thoughtfulness in the classroom today.

Who said doctors couldn't be creative? We're coming to believe the opposite!

There's a lot of weariness amongst GPs right now (people who are usually fairly cheerful), and it is worth readinh thread to understand why. 👇🏾

Thanks Australian Associated Press (AAP) for this lovely piece about the excellent work that Dr Dan Mason and team from Werribee Mercy (including the brilliant social workers Nat and Mel) have been doing with community from Utopia Refugee Health.

Its work that changes lives.
au.news.yahoo.com/refugee-kids-f…

We MUST get this right
If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?
No more Medicare Gender Gap #equity #WomensHealth
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Medicare Gender Gap needs addressing URGENTLY
#MedicareForAll
‘Why do women pay more out-of-pocket medical costs than men?' with the ABC listen app abclisten.page.link/HQrGywnotaAjjJ…

Israel is officially a pariah state & all it took was the tragic death of white people. Not the babies left to decompose, not the little girl hanging shredded to pieces, not the kids eating grass, not the father looking for his kids under the rubble with his bare hands #racism 🇵🇸

Urgent Care Centres: Is it a sign of under funded & poorly resourced primary care?

Last 9 months in Aus
EDs would’ve seen 6 million pts
UCC has seen 250,000: 4% of ED
All GPs would’ve seen 130 million pts

Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) President Marita Cowie AM Ryan Park MP AMA President

What’s the difference between a vasectomy and an IUD insertion?
Around $140!

Why?
Surely it’s because IUD insertion is easier (no it isn’t), quicker (no it isn’t) & doesn’t require a fancy set up (neither does vasectomy)

Could it be something else???
#EndGenderBias #Medicare

Rhea Liang Nisha Khot (She/Her) RN Drive Yes. In general practice Medicare rebates really incentivize short consults for simple issues. When the issue is more complicated and longer consults are needed, patients and GPs are both disadvantaged.
I assume there are similar issues for non GP specialists?

I've decided to do a #GPdilemmaADay to see what I'm doing 'wrong' today.
I don't prescribe enough oestrogen (abc.net.au/news/2023-11-1…)
I prescribe too much oestrogen (pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/featur…)
There isn't any oestrogen to prescribe (menopause.org.au/hp/news/menopa…)
Shame on you, GPs

I'm so tired. For months the press amplified the claim that we were antisemitic for demaning ceasefire and engaging in blood libel for describing the behaviour of the Israeli regime. What if these papers had said 'enough!' when the death toll was 4000 rather than 40000?