The Monday News Blog
Instead of a Federal takeover of health, GP services will be integrated with state-funded community health services, rumours from the Treasury suggest, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
Doctors are angry at being urged to use up swine flu from the government's stockpile before millions of doses expire, says The Daily Telegraph.
Overseas doctors who speak good English and have jobs organised here will become top priority migrants under a major overhaul of immigration policy, says the Herald Sun.
Marysville GP Lachlan Fraser attended the bushfire memorial service wearing the only shirt that he owned after the fire destroyed his house and clinic, reports The Age.
Injecting water into the lower back relieves back pain during labour, say Queensland midwives in the Courier Mail.
End of life care is poorly managed because doctors are trained in a culture of curing at all costs rather than confronting and managing death, say two palliative care specialists on the ABC.
Fat cops will get taxpayer subsidised bariatric surgery in a move slammed by public health experts, says Perth Now.
Taxpayers will subsidise doctors who attend a luxury conference in a beautiful medieval Belgium town organised by the NSW AMA, says The Daily Telegraph.
A new medical school has opened at Auburn Hospital in western Sydney by the University of Notre Dame, says the Parramatta Advertiser.
Ten GPs failed to diagnose the ovarian cancer in a 20-year-old woman in northern NSW says the Northern Star.
One in three rural doctors in Victoria may abandon the bush if there is no workforce rescue package in the May state budget, an AMA survey suggests, according to The Age.
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8 February 2010
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