Comments on: What Australia could learn from the US health system http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:27:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: warwick fry http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/#comment-36892 warwick fry Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:18:41 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/#comment-36892 Sounds like 'MASH' revisited Sounds like ‘MASH’ revisited

]]> By: David Christie http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/#comment-36882 David Christie Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:13:37 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/#comment-36882 Dear Professor Maddern, you must know as well as I that the AMA would immediately go onto a war footing and fight to the death to kill that idea. I resigned from them in 1976 over their intransigence about GPs working in health centres and I have seen no change in attitudes towards protection of the profession's monopoly over the succeeding years. Professor. PATIENTS WILL SUFFER AND DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH !!! (just as in home birthing and with nurse practitiioners). Dear Professor Maddern, you must know as well as I that the AMA would immediately go onto a war footing and fight to the death to kill that idea. I resigned from them in 1976 over their intransigence about GPs working in health centres and I have seen no change in attitudes towards protection of the profession’s monopoly over the succeeding years. Professor. PATIENTS WILL SUFFER AND DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH !!! (just as in home birthing and with nurse practitiioners).

]]> By: Brendon Jarrett http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/#comment-36879 Brendon Jarrett Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:03:34 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/#comment-36879 SRNs are denigrated once again; marginalised by neglect and disinterest amongst specialist service providers at St Everywhere. Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, Maddern and his colleagues may find their patients and the system better off if they made more efficient use of the practitioners they already have available. Try giving them more professional support, perhaps even paying nursing practitioners realistically for their expertise and the work they do. SRNs are denigrated once again; marginalised by neglect and disinterest amongst specialist service providers at St Everywhere. Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, Maddern and his colleagues may find their patients and the system better off if they made more efficient use of the practitioners they already have available. Try giving them more professional support, perhaps even paying nursing practitioners realistically for their expertise and the work they do.

]]> By: robbi64 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/#comment-36840 robbi64 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:04:02 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/#comment-36840 Gavin, you read my mind and beat me to it. :) What is the difference between a nurse practitioner and a physician assistant, Prof Maddern? Gavin, you read my mind and beat me to it. :)

What is the difference between a nurse practitioner and a physician assistant, Prof Maddern?

]]> By: Gavin Moodie http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/#comment-36830 Gavin Moodie Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:38:35 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/08/diary-of-a-surgeon-what-australia-could-learn-from-the-us-health-system/#comment-36830 Why prefer physician assistants to nurse practitioners, who are better established in Australian health care altho still at the margins? Is it that physician assistants are 'under direct supervision of a medical practitioner' while nurse practitioners are more independent? Why prefer physician assistants to nurse practitioners, who are better established in Australian health care altho still at the margins? Is it that physician assistants are ‘under direct supervision of a medical practitioner’ while nurse practitioners are more independent?

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